Title: POEMS | ON | VARIOUS SUBJECTS, | by S. T. COLERIDGE, | late of Jesus College, Cambridge | [Quotation]. London: | Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons, and | J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol. | 1796. 16mo.
Collation: Bastard Title, 1 page. Title, 1 page. pp. xvi. pp. 188. “Errata,” 1 unnumbered page of Advertisement, “Published by the same author.” Size 6½ × 4.
Note. Coleridge says in the Preface, “The Effusions signed C. L. were written by Mr. Charles Lamb, of the India House—independently of the signature their superior merit would have sufficiently distinguished them.” There are four, viz.: VII. “To Mrs. Siddons.” XI. Beginning “Was it some sweet device of faery land?” XII. Beginning “Methinks how dainty sweet it were, reclin’d.” XIII. “Written at midnight, by the sea-side, after a voyage.”
Price. Johnson Sale, N. Y., 1890, $9.50 [calf, gilt]. Sotheby’s, 1887 [morocco, gilt top], £3 15s.
1797.
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Title: POEMS, | BY | S. T. COLERIDGE | Second edition |, to which are now added | Poems | by Charles Lamb | and | Charles Lloyd | [Quotation]. Printed by N. Biggs, | for J. Cottle, Bristol, and Messrs. | Robinsons, London. | 1797. 16mo.
Collation: Title, 1 page. pp. xx. pp. 278. Size 6-11/16 × 4⅛.
Note. Lamb’s contribution was eight Sonnets and a Dedication, viz.: “Fragments,” (6) “A Vision of Repentance,” in Supplement, “Childhood,” “Grandame,” “The Sabbath Bells,” “Fancy,” “The Tomb of Douglas.”
“There were inserted in my former Edition a few Sonnets of my Friend and Old Schoolfellow, Charles Lamb. He has now communicated to me a complete collection of all his Poems—quæ qui non prorsus amet ilium omnes et virtutes et veneres ordore.”