Other Contributors include Charles Lloyd, Amelia Opie, George Dyer, Joseph Cottle, Robert Lovell, A.S Cottle, Humphrey Davy, Dr. Beddoes, Joseph Hucks, & Mary Robinson. Bristol. Printed by Biggs and Co. for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, London. 1799 - 1800. 2 vols. pp. (viii), 300; (vi), 299. 8vo. Full calf, spines with gilt decoration and labels. All hinges rubbed. In Vol 1. pp. 31/32 (Sig. B8) is cancelled as usual. It carried Southey's War Poem, which was deleted because of the extreme lack of patriotism it expressed. There are 27 poems included by Coleridge of which This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, A Poem, Addresses to Charles Lamb, of the India-House, London; Sonnet to W.L. Esq. while he sung a Song to Purcell's Music; Somethiong childish, but very natural. Written in Germany; Home-Sick. Written in Germany; and four of the Epigrams were all printed for the first time in these volumes. A third volume was considered but never published.With the bookplate of Edward J. McCutchen and the binders label C. Kalthoeber, London. Wise p. 56.
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