Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and some miscellaneous pieces
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
London: William Pickering. 1849.
A very good association copy with gift inscription from Sara Coleridge to her son Herbert. Second edition. 8vo in 4s. 170x105mm. pp. xlviii, 289 [1bl], 2pp adverts. Red half calf, marbled paper covered board, spine with four raised bands, decorated in gilt, second and fourth compartments with red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. In excellent condition, near fine internally. The title page in inscribed "Herbert Coleridge from his affectionate Mother Sara Coleridge July 18th 1849". Sara was Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter. In 1829 married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge who, on the poet's death in 1834 became his literary executor, editing Aids to Reflection, Literary Remains and the present work. He also published Coleridge's Table Talk. Henry died in 1843 leaving Sara to continue and complete the editing and publication of her father's work including this second edition of Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. Her son Herbert, to whom Sara gave this copy, was a brilliant linguist and philologist. He was a founding member of the Philological Society committee whose work on the compilation of a new dictionary led to the publication of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sadly though Herbert's involvement was cut short by his early death at the age of thirty.
A very good association copy with gift inscription from Sara Coleridge to her son Herbert. Second edition. 8vo in 4s. 170x105mm. pp. xlviii, 289 [1bl], 2pp adverts. Red half calf, marbled paper covered board, spine with four raised bands, decorated in gilt, second and fourth compartments with red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. In excellent condition, near fine internally. The title page in inscribed "Herbert Coleridge from his affectionate Mother Sara Coleridge July 18th 1849". Sara was Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter. In 1829 married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge who, on the poet's death in 1834 became his literary executor, editing Aids to Reflection, Literary Remains and the present work. He also published Coleridge's Table Talk. Henry died in 1843 leaving Sara to continue and complete the editing and publication of her father's work including this second edition of Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. Her son Herbert, to whom Sara gave this copy, was a brilliant linguist and philologist. He was a founding member of the Philological Society committee whose work on the compilation of a new dictionary led to the publication of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sadly though Herbert's involvement was cut short by his early death at the age of thirty.