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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.. REMORSE. A tragedy, in five acts. Second edition.. London: printed for W. Pople 67 Chancery Lane, 1813.

Price: US$253.63 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. vi, [iv], 78; title page rather dust-soiled and with short tear in blank margin, else a remarkable copy, uncut and stitched in early wrappers (upper wrapper nearly all torn away, but spine and lower cover surviving). Second edition: this play, originally titled Osorio and written as long ago as 1797, was performed to great applause at Drury Lane in the winter of 1813. It must count as one of the few real successes of Coleridge's career – the fact that a second edition was called for is alone an illustration of this. For the first time the present edition includes The Foster-Mother's Tale, which had been first printed in Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge's preface to this appendix (p. 75) makes sad reading: 'it having been determined, that this with my other Poems in that collection. should be omitted in any future edition, I have been advised to reprint it'. Tinker 691.

Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Remorse. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Printed for W. Pople, London, 1813.

Price: US$568.78 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound into one half brown leather with marbled paper over boards. Raised bands and gilt decoration to the spine. This is the second edition, with revised text from the first including a different ending. There is some usual wear to the leather at the outer corners and to the spine; some faint foxing and a little browning to the endpages.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Coleridge Samuel Taylor. Remorse. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. , 1813.

Price: US$580.43 + shipping

Description: First edition. 8vo., a good copy, bound with others (see below) in functional purple cloth, lettered in gilt, spine rather faded. London, Printed for W. Pople. ?Remorse? has a prologue in verse by Charles Lamb, the play being written in 1797, but not performed until 1813 in London's Drury Lane, where it enjoyed some success, earning Coleridge £400. Coleridge was not displeased when some of the reviews condemned his metaphysics, claiming that he therefore was cleansing the stage. The play is bound up with copies of Knowles's ?Woman's Wit or, Love's Disguises?, 1838; Colman's ?A Trip to Calais . to which is annexed The Capuchin?, 1788; Milman's ?Fazio, A Tragedy?, seventh edition, 1831; Dibdin's ?The Cabinet; a Comic Opera?, 1810, and Sir James Bland Burges's ?Riches: or the Wife and Brother, a Play, in Five Acts, founded on Massinger's Comedy of the City Madam?, third edition, 1814.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom