Poems on Various Subjects.
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796.
Price: $6,000.00
About the item
First Edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, with half-title and ads. xvi, 188, [1, errata], [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in near contemporary mottled calf, spine neatly laid down. Booklabel. Hayward 206; Wise, Coleridge 8; CBEL III:173; Lowndes I:493; OCEL I:319; Tinker 678; Roth (Lamb), pages 3-10.
Item #317523
First edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, including Charles Lamb's first appearance in print. Complete with half-title, errata and advertisements. "Like Spenser he is a poet's poet" (DNB). Preceding Lyrical Ballads by two years, Poems on Various Subjects was published by Cottle in April 1796 and contained four sonnets by Charles Lamb, marking his first appearance in print. With the seldom-found half-title, and errata and ad leaves at the end.
"An important literary volume" (Rosenbach 29:108).