Hartley Coleridge — Poems Vol. I.

Leeds , F. E. Bingley, 1833. First edition. Cloth. The first issue of this understated poetical collection from Hartley Coleridge, the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. First edition, first issue [Hayward 251]. Uncommon.Bound in quarter diced cloth, with paper covered boards. Original paper spine label laid down.Despite stated as Volume I to the title page, no second volume was published, and later copies of the book had this notice removed. Hartley's first and most important publication, issued by the Leeds publisher for whom he was writing the British Worthies series.While inevitably overshadowed by his father (one of the most influential figures in English literature), Hartley Coleridge was himself a Romantic-era poet, whose literary reputation chiefly rests on these sonnets. Though the subject of two of his father's poems - 'Frost at Midnight' and 'The Nightingale' - Coleridge was estranged from his parents in his youth and instead spent his early years in the care of Robert Southey. Bound in quarter diced cloth, with paper covered boards. Original paper spine label laid down. Externally, front board is detached but present. Marks to the boards. Rubbing to the spine and rear joint. Internally, front free endpaper disbound but present, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with scattered spots throughout, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .