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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). The Watchman, numbers I-X. Bristol: by the author, 1st March to 13th May 1796.
8° (202 x 124mm). Continuous signatures and pagination. (Some discolouration, light spotting to later leaves, rust mark on page 2 affecting one letter.) 19th-century half polished calf gilt, crest of the Crewe-Milne family in gilt on upper cover (extremities rubbed.) Provenance: Robert, Earl of Crewe (armorial bookplate). Haney III 5.
Coleridge raised the funds to publish The Watchman by subscription, but by the tenth issue had so successfully alienated his readership that he found himself forced to stop production. Each issue offended a different party or interest, starting with his notorious decision to quote from Isaiah below the title of number II 'Wherefore my Bowels shall sound like an Harp.' The poems To a Young Lady (March 1st), Ad Lyram (March 9th), The Hour when we shall meet again (March 17th), Fragments from an Unpublished Poem (March 25th), Recollection (April 2nd), Count Rumford (April 2nd), On Observing a Blossom (April 11th), and To a Primrose (April 27th), all first appeared in print in The Watchman.
8° (202 x 124mm). Continuous signatures and pagination. (Some discolouration, light spotting to later leaves, rust mark on page 2 affecting one letter.) 19th-century half polished calf gilt, crest of the Crewe-Milne family in gilt on upper cover (extremities rubbed.) Provenance: Robert, Earl of Crewe (armorial bookplate). Haney III 5.
Coleridge raised the funds to publish The Watchman by subscription, but by the tenth issue had so successfully alienated his readership that he found himself forced to stop production. Each issue offended a different party or interest, starting with his notorious decision to quote from Isaiah below the title of number II 'Wherefore my Bowels shall sound like an Harp.' The poems To a Young Lady (March 1st), Ad Lyram (March 9th), The Hour when we shall meet again (March 17th), Fragments from an Unpublished Poem (March 25th), Recollection (April 2nd), Count Rumford (April 2nd), On Observing a Blossom (April 11th), and To a Primrose (April 27th), all first appeared in print in The Watchman.