COLERIDGE FAMILY COPY
The works in verse and prose complete...
[Blackburn].
Printed [by C. Tiplady and Son] for private circulation, 1871.
8vo.
In four volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and discoloured. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of Bernard Lord Coleridge to versos of all FFEPs.
A limited edition (one of 156 copies printed for private circulation) of the complete work of metaphysical poet and translator of devotional works Henry Vaughan (1621-1695); compiled and edited, with a dedication to Sir John Duke Coleridge, by literary scholar and theologian Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827- 1899), published as a part of his thirty-nine volume series issued under the general title of the Fuller Worthies Library (1868-1876), and including authors such as Donne, Herbert, and Crashaw.
Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, second Baron Coleridge (1851-1927), judge, son of the dedicatee Sir John Duke (afterwards first baron) Coleridge (1820- 1894), and great-grand-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 25996
Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, second Baron Coleridge (1851-1927), judge, son of the dedicatee Sir John Duke (afterwards first baron) Coleridge (1820- 1894), and great-grand-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.