Coleridge - New Acquisitions

NEW ACQUISITIONS
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May 2010
Abraham, Ashley P. Some portraits of the Lake poets and their homes, with 29 full-page monogravure illustrations by G.P. Abraham, F.R.P.S. & Sons, photographer, Keswick. PR590 .A157 1920 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The rime of the ancient mariner : in seven parts. Illustrated by Gustave Doré, Birket Foster, and others. PR4479 .A1 1895a Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Aids to reflection, with the author's last corrections ; edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq., M.A. ; to which is prefixed a preliminary essay by John M'Vickar, D.D. PR4480 .A4 1872
SELECTED PREVIOUS ACQUISITIONS
Descriptions below are from the auction catalogue: *The Halsted B. Vander Poel Collection of English Literature: Christie's*, Wednesday 3 March, 2004. London: Christies, 2004. Z999 .C48 2004, March 3 VUCO
Aristaenetus. (fl. 5th or 6th century A.D.) Aristainetou epistolai = Aristaeneti Epistolae graecae: cum Latina interpretatione & notis. [by Josias Mercerus]. Paris: Marc Orry, 1610. 4° (170 x 110mm). Parallel text in Greek and Latin. PA3874 .A3 1610 VUCO
The George I-Coleridge copy of Aristaenetus. This was the third edition published by Orry, the first appearing in 1594. The Brown of the inscription is John Brown, printer of the Friend. Coleridge left Allan Bank for Penrith on 12 February 1809 in order to visit him and arrange for publication of the first issue. Thereafter he frequently traveled between Keswick, Penrith and Appleby in order to prepare the Friend for publication.

Provenance: Royal Library (bookplate of George I by Pine; and inscription "Bt. Of M. Thurlbourne Apr. 24. 1746. Dupl of yé Royal Library' on title verso - S.T. Coleridge (inside front cover inscribed 'S.T. Coleridge/1809/Bought at Brown's/Penrith'; title signed 'S.T. Coleridge.') - [?W.H.P. Coleridge] - Parke Bernet, New York, 18 February 1941, lot 140 - Parke Bernet, 29 January 1951, lot 125 - purchased at Parke-Bernet, 18 October 1955, lot 270.


Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825. 8° (196 x 111mm). PR4480 .A4 1825 c.4 VUCO First edition, presentation copy to Southey with inscription dated only days after the book's publication date May. Provenance: presentation copy from the author to Robert Southey (title inscribed at foot: 'Robert Southey from S.T.C./London 6 June 1825'; with corrections, additions and deletions in Coleridge's hand on 6 pages and 2-page note in his hand on rear endpaper)- Sir George Grove (signature on yellow wrapper) - [George Prichard, Chester (bookseller's blindstamp on wrapper)] - purchased from Rosenback, Philadphia, 30 January 1946.

Colquhuoun, Patrick (1745-1820). Treatise on Indigence. London: J. Hatchard, 1806. 8° (223 x 135mm). HV248 .C6 1806 VUCO COLERIDGE'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH AN EXTENDED AUTOGRAPH NOTE ON POVERTY OF MANIFICENT ELOQUENCE (pp. 8-9). This is the only one of Colquhoun's many pamphlets on trade, liquor traffic, poor relief and police questions known to have belonged to Coleridge. It is a particularly interesting work, the table giving a statistical summary of 'the national income and state of society.' Coleridge's introductory note, signed with initials, states: 'There appear to be many and important exceptions to several of the doctrines of properties advanced in this treatise; yet it is an excellent book spite of these exceptions.' Provenance: S.T. Coleridge (his autograph note on front free endpaper and 4 marginalia over 5 pages of text, each piece signed with initials) - [Thomas Poole] - [?Herbert Coleridge] - [Richard Herne Shepherd (see his article, 'Coleridge's Notes on Colquhoun,' Philobiblion, I (1862), pp. 65066)] - purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 23 February 1939.

EXAMPLES OF RECENT ACQUISITIONS ABOUT S. T. COLERIDGE AND ROMANTICISM, published since 2008
Available in the Stacks at E. J. Pratt Library: Barbeau, Jeffrey W. Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. PR4487 .R4 B27 2008 Burwick, Frederick.The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. PR4484 .O94 2009 Faflak, Joel. Romantic Psychoanalysis : The Burden of the Mystery. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. PR457 .F29 2008 Fairer, David. Organising Poetry : The Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. PR4487 .P58 F35 2009 Fry, Paul H. Wordsworth and the Poetry of what we are. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. PR5892 .P5 F79 2008 Hay, Daisy. Young romantics : the tangled lives of English poetry's greatest generation. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. PR590 .H297 2010 James, Felicity. Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth : Reading Friendship in the 1790s. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. PR441 .J35 2008 Paley, Morton D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. PR4487 .A75 P35 2008 Simpson, David. Wordsworth, commodification and social concern: the poetics of modernity. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. PR5892 .S58 S56 2009 Tee, Mark Ve-Yin. Coleridge, Revision and Romanticism : After the Revolution, 1793-1818. London: Continuum, 2009. PR4484 .T44 2009 Vigus, James, and Jane Wright. Coleridge's Afterlives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. PR4484 .C618 2008 Vigus, James. Platonic Coleridge. London: Maney Pub., 2009. B1583 .Z7 V54 2009 Webster, Suzanne Elizabeth. Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834 : What is Life? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. PR4483 .A393 W43 2010 For a comprehensive list of new acquisitions, including circulating books, see New Acquisitions. [ top ] Victoria University Library home updated June 7, 2010 (created Sep 29, 2004)