VERY GOOD HARDBACK. BOUND IN BLUE CLOTH WITH GOLD LETTERING TO FRONT AND SPINE. HISTORY OF DRESS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. 51 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR. SCARCE.
FIRST EDITION FINELY BOUND IN HALF MOROCCO RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE. RICHLY ILLUSTRATED BY HERBERT RAILTON AND HUGH THOMSON. A VERY HANDSOME COPY. WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE.
FINE COPY IN A VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH A LIST OF PROSPECTUSES 1920 – 62 AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOKS. PREVIOUSE OWNERS BOOKPLATE.
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CHAMBERS D. AND SANDFORD C.
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PRIVATE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION FOR THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
THIRD EDITION ENLARGED AND ALTERED BY JOHN HAWKINS. FULL LEATHER WITH WORN BOARDS SPINE TITLE HAND-WRITTEN. TRIMMED TITLE PAGE INSERTED AND BOOK INCOMPLETE AS THE LAST ENTRY IS ‘WILL’.
FIRST EDITION NEAR FINE IN DUSTWRAP. . THIS IS THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF THE EARLY UNREVISED VERSION OF COLERIDGE`S JOURNAL THE FRIEND. DR. COLEMAN RECONSTRUCTS THE PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND OF THE JOURNAL FOCUSING PARTICULARLY ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING ITS PRODUCTION COLERIDGE`S UNEASY DEBUT AS A GOVERNMENT APOLOGIST AND HIS DEBTS TO A TRADITION OF ENGLISH CONSERVATION.
VERY GOOD COPY. DUSTWRAP HAS SOME FADING AND HAS A VERY SMALL PIECE MISSING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE. JAMES MARSH THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITOR AND COMMENTATOR ON SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE PUBLISHED AN EDITION OF COLERIDGE`S AIDS TO REFLECTION IN 1829 AT BURLINGTON VERMONT WHICH EXERCISED A PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BEGINNING WITH SUCH MAJOR FIGURES AS EMERSON RIPLEY AND OTHERS IN TRANSCENDENTALIST CIRCLES.
VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. ISBN NO. 0-8229-1114-0. COLERIDGE REMAINS AN ELUSIVE FIGURE IN ENGLISH LIERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORY ATTRACTIVE SELF-DISTANCING SYMPATHETIC AND BAFFLING BY TURNS. TO COMMEMORATE THE BICENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH A NUMBER OF SCHOLARS WELL KNOWN IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELDS WERE INVITED TO LECTURE ON HIS WORK AT CAMBRIDGE. THE RESULTING STUDIES ALONG WITH ONE OR TWO BASED ON LECTURES GIVEN ELSEWHERE PRESENT AN UNUSUALLY COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF HIS MIND AND IMAGINATION.
FIRST EDITION FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAP. LONG CELEBRATED AS A GREAT AESTHETIC IDEALIST AND CHAMPION OF THE IMAGINATION COLERIDGE IS NOW BEGINNING TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS A LITERARY CRITIC WITH MANY OTHER DIMENSIONS WITH EXCITING AND FAR-REACHING INSIGHTS INTO LANGUAGE AND WITH DETAILED NOTIONS ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC DEMANDS OF THE LITERARY EXPERIENCE.
FIRST EDITION FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAP. THIS VOLUME OF LETTERS – THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHICH ARE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED – PRESENTS A REMARKABLE OFTEN MOVING AND EXTRAORINARY IMAGE OF THE COLERIDGE FAMILY DURING SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE`S YOUTH PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 1772 AND 1793 WHEN THE WRITER REACHED TWENTY-ONE.