Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
Edited from the Author's MS by Henry Nelson Coleridge. [Second and Best Edition].
THE PICKERING 'CONFESSIONS' IN FULL CALF
Published: William Pickering, 1849
Stock code: 30738
Price: £134.00
16mo., Second Edition, very neat lengthy contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, title and facing leaf lightly spotted; tastefully bound in contemporary full grained calf, sides with frame border in blind, back with five bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, primrose endpapers, blue silk marker, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, fresh copy.
A bright copy, fresh and clean internally, bound without the advertisement leaf which is sometimes present. This second edition, with notes by Sara Coleridge, is greatly expanded (from 95 to 289 pages). It adds a new advertisement and extended introduction by Joseph Henry Green, philosopher and friend of STC. It retains the advertisement to the first edition of 1840. Shepherd, p.65; Wise 89.