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SOUTHEY, Robert (1774-1843) and Robert LOVELL (1771-1796). Poems: Containing The Retrospect, Odes, Elegies, Sonnets, . Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell and sold by C. Dilly, 1795.
8° (193 x 116 mm). Half-title. (A few pale stains, flyleaf with a few short tears.) Contemporary tree calf (rebacked preserving original spine); green quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Sarah Cottle (presentation inscription from Robert Southey, gift inscription from Edith Southey).
COLERIDGE’S SECOND APPEARANCE IN PRINT
¿first edition, presentation copy, inscribed with twelve lines of verse by southey¿: “To Sarah Cottle / Lady! when far away beyond the seas / I journeyed, still my heart remembered you. / Still from a land of strangers turnd to you / As to its home, nor now that I have found / The Port of Peace, shall I forgetfully / Let pass the memory of my distant friends; / For often seated by our evening hearth / We will, of other days & other scenes / Remindful, think of you; & I shall hope / Lady! that sometimes in these rhymes, the rude / And early efforts of progressive youth, / You may remember me tho distant far / Robert Southey”.
AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY: Sarah Cottle was the sister of publisher Joseph Cottle (1770-1853), who met Southey and Coleridge in 1794. Cottle would later publish Coleridge’s Poems, Southey’s Joan of Arc, Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, and Coleridge and Southey’s Early Recollections. “In addition to being Robert Southey’s first literary venture, the volume afforded Coleridge the opportunity to make his second appearance in print. Sonnet XII, The Faded Flower, printed on p.68, though signed with Southey’s nom-de-plume “Bion,” was written by Coleridge and is to be found in his collected works. The twenty Poems and Sonnets by Robert Southey included in the volume have never been reprinted” (T.J. Wise). Tinker 1948. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
[Laid in]: Fragment of ALS SIGNED BY SOUTHEY dated 30 Sept. 1826. Half-sheet containing 8 lines (lacking lower half sheet).
8° (193 x 116 mm). Half-title. (A few pale stains, flyleaf with a few short tears.) Contemporary tree calf (rebacked preserving original spine); green quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Sarah Cottle (presentation inscription from Robert Southey, gift inscription from Edith Southey).
COLERIDGE’S SECOND APPEARANCE IN PRINT
¿first edition, presentation copy, inscribed with twelve lines of verse by southey¿: “To Sarah Cottle / Lady! when far away beyond the seas / I journeyed, still my heart remembered you. / Still from a land of strangers turnd to you / As to its home, nor now that I have found / The Port of Peace, shall I forgetfully / Let pass the memory of my distant friends; / For often seated by our evening hearth / We will, of other days & other scenes / Remindful, think of you; & I shall hope / Lady! that sometimes in these rhymes, the rude / And early efforts of progressive youth, / You may remember me tho distant far / Robert Southey”.
AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY: Sarah Cottle was the sister of publisher Joseph Cottle (1770-1853), who met Southey and Coleridge in 1794. Cottle would later publish Coleridge’s Poems, Southey’s Joan of Arc, Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, and Coleridge and Southey’s Early Recollections. “In addition to being Robert Southey’s first literary venture, the volume afforded Coleridge the opportunity to make his second appearance in print. Sonnet XII, The Faded Flower, printed on p.68, though signed with Southey’s nom-de-plume “Bion,” was written by Coleridge and is to be found in his collected works. The twenty Poems and Sonnets by Robert Southey included in the volume have never been reprinted” (T.J. Wise). Tinker 1948. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
[Laid in]: Fragment of ALS SIGNED BY SOUTHEY dated 30 Sept. 1826. Half-sheet containing 8 lines (lacking lower half sheet).