FINE COPY IN A VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH A LIST OF PROSPECTUSES 1920 – 62 AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOKS. PREVIOUSE OWNERS BOOKPLATE.
Author:
CHAMBERS D. AND SANDFORD C.
Place, Publisher, Date:
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.
