Collation: Title, 1 page, Dedication, 1 page. pp. 134. Size 6⅝ × 4⅛.
Note. Another edition was published the same year in Birmingham. Printed for Thos. Pearson, pp. 134.
With the exception of the title-page this edition is identical with the London one. Charles Lloyd’s father lived in Birmingham, and it is suggested that a few copies had been struck off there. [Dedication. “This Tale is inscribed in friendship to Marmaduke Thompson, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.”]
Price. Dodd & Mead [morocco, gilt. Title in fac-simile], $50.00. New York, 1885 [Full calf, by Bedford], $25.00.
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Title: THE | ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY, | Volume I | Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Co, For | T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, | London | n,d. 16mo
Collation: Title, 1 page, Advertisement, 1 unnumbered leaf, Contents, 4 unnumbered pages, pp. 300. Size 6⅞ × 4½.
Note. This volume was edited by Robert Southey, and published by Joseph Cottle. Among the distinguished contributors were Coleridge, Southey, Charles Lloyd, George Dyer, Mrs. Opie, Joseph Cottle, etc., etc. Lamb contributed “Living Without God in the World,” pp. 90-92. A second series was published the next year [See Letter to Southey, November 28, 1798], which contained Coleridge’s Poem “This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, A Poem addressed to Charles Lamb of the India House,” pp. 140-144.
Price. Sotheby’s, 1888 [original boards, uncut], £1. [calf] £1 5s.