March 2021 Catalogue

12 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “Instead Of The Cross, The Albatross / About My Neck Was Hung” 10. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Sibylline Leaves: a Collection of Poems. London, 1817. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked. $2500. Click for more info First edition of this collection of poems, including the first appearance of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” under Coleridge’s name, with an additional stanza and extensive prose gloss provided by Coleridge that did not appear with the poem in its first uncredited appearance in Lyrical Ballads (1798). This collection contains the first appearance of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to appear under Coleridge’s name and with an additional stanza on page 15. Among Coleridge’s major works here collected are “The Nightingale,” “Dejection: An Ode,” and “France: An Ode.” This volume was originally projected to be the second part of an intended two-volume project consisting of Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves , printed by John Evans & Co. of Bristol in 1814-15 (hence the appearance of the register ‘Vol. II’ at intervals in the text). This project was abandoned and the sheets were acquired by Rest Fenner, who printed the preliminaries and issued the work, as here, in 1817. Boards with gilt-tooled centerpiece arms of The Society of Writers to the Signet, Scotland’s independent lawyers’ association and one of the world’s oldest professional organizations. Old shelf label. Only occasional spotting, chiefly marginal. An extremely good copy.