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Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, bound in contemporary pebbled morocco and marbled boards lettered in gilt; weak rear hinge; title page with repaired tear, not affecting text; enclosed in a folding-box. First edition of Coleridge's dense philosophical work, with ads at end; several contemporary annotations of an editorial nature. A respectable copy of a significant work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Paper spine with printed label, drab brown boards, crown octavo, xvi + 404pp., with 4pp of advertisements. This is a restored binding using the original boards and a new spine recreated in the manner of the original, based on evidence of board and spine colors discovered while removing a later binding. A couple pages have some pen notations. Covers edgeworn.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.90 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, [iv], 404. 4pp. undated advertisements. Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars on verso of the title-page. Nineteenth-century half yellow morocco, raised bands, marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound by J.B.Hawes, Cambridge. Fine Aids to Reflection is a collection of moral and religious aphorisms, with commentaries. Coleridge's purpose in this, his last major work of theology and philosophy, is to address his thought to the unspiritual but reflecting reader who is led from worldly-mindedness to the acceptance of spiritual religion. An excellent copy of this important if difficult work.
Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A religious and philosophical treatise by the English Romantic poet. Coleridge (1772-1834) compiled this unsystematic collection of commentaries and aphorisms on selected passages from the 17th century Anglican divine Archbishop Leighton. It stresses the importance of Christianity as a "personal revelation" and further distinction between Reason and Understanding, originally drawn from Kant, as the source respectively of "Moral" and "Prudential" action. 404 p. Octavo. In a one-half vellum over brown cloth binding by Morrell (London), with gilt stamping and marbled endpapers. Some occasional pencil marginalia. The vellum is lightly soiled; else very good.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this collection of moral and religious aphorisms by the renowned poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first edition of this work. 'Aids to Reflection' is a collection of moral and religious aphorisms. The work is intended to be read by those who wish to better themselves morally and spiritually. Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet who is known as being one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in literature. His best known works are 'Kubla Khan', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and 'Biographia Literaria'. With four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. From the library of Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth, critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. Rebound in a quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small tidemark and discolouration to the spine label. A couple of light marks to the boards. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom