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COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834). CHRISTABEL: KUBLA KHAN, A VISION; THE PAINS OF SLEEP. LONDON: WILLIAM BULMER & CO. FOR JOHN MURRAY, 1816. 8 (206 X 123MM). (LACKING THE TWO ADVERTISEMENT LEAVES.) LATER LIGHT BROWN CALF GILT BY RIVIERE & SON, G.E. FIRST EDITION. Wise Two Lake Poets p.74.
Charles LAMB (1775-1834). Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. London: Thomas Davison for Taylor & Hessey, 1823. 8; The Last Essays of Elia. London: Bradbury & Evans for Edward Moxon, 1833. 12. 2 works in two volumes (177 x 111mm). 3 ll. advertisements at the end of the first work, half-title to second work. (Second work lacking 2 leaves of advertisements at end.) Uniform later blue morocco gilt by Riviere & son, triple fillet border to covers, spines in six compartments with rasied bands, lettered in two, the others with repeat decoration of small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (light scuffing to upper cover of the first work). Provenance: H.M.[urdoch/Murdock] (armorial leather book-label gilt, ?pencilled note at back of first work: 'Bought at B... Stevens Feb 16th 1893 for 8.1.0.'). FIRST EDITIONS, the first work a first issue. (3)
Charles LAMB (1775-1834). Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. London: Thomas Davison for Taylor & Hessey, 1823. 8; The Last Essays of Elia. London: Bradbury & Evans for Edward Moxon, 1833. 12. 2 works in two volumes (177 x 111mm). 3 ll. advertisements at the end of the first work, half-title to second work. (Second work lacking 2 leaves of advertisements at end.) Uniform later blue morocco gilt by Riviere & son, triple fillet border to covers, spines in six compartments with rasied bands, lettered in two, the others with repeat decoration of small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (light scuffing to upper cover of the first work). Provenance: H.M.[urdoch/Murdock] (armorial leather book-label gilt, ?pencilled note at back of first work: 'Bought at B... Stevens Feb 16th 1893 for 8.1.0.'). FIRST EDITIONS, the first work a first issue. (3)