Author: COLERIDGE (Hartley):
Title: Poems. With a Memoir of his Life by His Brother [Derwent Coleridge].
Description: London: Edward Moxon..., 1851. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. ccxv [ccxvi blank], 168; xii, 387 [388 printer's imprint], 7 page list [p. 8 is printer's imprint] dated July, 1851 of Moxon imprints inserted in volume 1 before front free end-paper, including half-titles, engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume 1, embossed cloth in light green to a border design with scroll inset; adverts leaves with several pinholes in top margins, corners a bit worn, upper rear joint volume 1 snagged. With a virtually illegible inscription (possibly "---- Dickens [or Dickins] with/ Edwin's & [?] Lewis's love"), undated, on the recto of the front free end-paper, and a later inscription, "Louisa Holder/ from Julia Wilson/ Christmas 1900" on the half-title of each volume. Julia Wilson is possibly the sister of Emilie Isabel Barrington (nee Wilson, 1841 - 1933).

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