8vo. 456pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Henry Sacheverell. Contemporary gilt-tooled, panelled mottled calf, later rebacked, with a contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A.E.G. Rubbed, with loss to head of spine and surface wear to joints and edges. A Coleridge family copy, with the armorial bookplate of Bernard, Lord Coleridge to FFEP, inked ownership inscription of Jane Fortescue Coleridge, Heath's Court to head of second blank fly-leaf, and a manuscript page of biographical notes on the volume's subject by Francis George Coleridge to first blank fly-leaf. Occasional very light scattered spotting.

A Coleridge family copy of The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, with notes from a young Francis George Coleridge (1794–1854), likely the poet's nephew, and the inscription of the artist Jane Fortescue Seymour, Lady Coleridge (1825-1878). The volume recounts the case of Anglican clergyman Henry Sacheverell (1674 – 1724), whose impassioned sermon, The Perils of False Brethren (1709), led to impeachment by the House of Commons. Despite being found guilty, Sachaverell was given a light sentence, becoming a national sensation; his gentle treatment by the courts in the face of vitriolic anti-Whig sentiment is likely to have contributed to the landslide Tory victory in 1710.