Item #86238 The Annual Anthology. Volume I [and] Volume II. Robert Southey.

The Annual Anthology. Volume I [and] Volume II

Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Co. for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, [1799-1800]. 1st ed. Hardcover. [8], 300, [6], 299p. Later full green leather with gilt-stamped inner dentelles. 17cm. Backstrip toned to brown. Joints showing slight tenderness. Edges lightly rubbed. Letter dated 5/3/1891 from E. D. North at Charles Scriber's Sons to an unnamed recipient (indicating that he was sending this set and two other works on "approbation") has been folded and neatly bound in. Later gift inscription in first volume dated 1941. Scattered foxing, soiling and edge-wear in both volumes. All edges gilt, presumably when this was rebound. Major contributors to these volumes were Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. No more volumes published. Two issue points: (1) "War Poem" by Southey was deemed objectionable so almost all copies, including this one, were issued without leaf B8 (pages 31-32) in Volume I which contained that poem; and (2) leaf C3 (pages 37-38) in Volume II is in uncancelled state with "wicked" appearing on line 9 on page 37. Near Fine. Item #86238

Price: $500.00

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