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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Friend, Volume II. William Pickering, 1837.
Price: US$6.21 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1837. Third Edition. 261 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound brown leather with brown cloth covered boards. Volume Two. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription and plates to front pastedown and free endpapers. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Moderate splits to joints. Leather peeling to spine and corners, with noticeable scuffing and scratches overall. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Dark scuffed marking to all surfaces. Book is bowed and forward leaning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume II ONLY. Original textblock professionally rebound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Light shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding tight.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1837 . William Pickering . Hardcover. GOOD Half leather boards, gilt titles. Patterned page edges. Foxed. Marked. Leather is worn. The bottom of the spine is detaching. Spine sunned. 8x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.. THE FRIEND: VOL III.. William Pickering, 1837.
Price: US$36.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1837. William Pickering. Third. Hard Cover. Book- Good, half leather bound, brown boards, boards marked, t.e.g. 6.5x4. 555pp. Ex-libris - Queen Mary College, London. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a poet, literary critic, philosopher and member of the Lake Poets. This contains excerpts from the journal "The Friend' which drew upon his knowledge of law, philosophy, morals, politics, history and literary criticism.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
COLERIDGE, Samuel T.. THE FRIEND, vol 2 1837. William Pickering, London, 1837.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: B-Glass 1; This 1837 edition, vol, 2 261 pages is 3/4 leather. Light wear to tips and spine gutters, slight sep at top of spine gutter. Top edge gilt. marbled end papers, tight hinges. A really nice copy. FOUR RAISED BANDS ON SPINE WITH GILT DECOR AND TITLES.
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor). The Friend.. [by C. Whittingham for] William Pickering, London, 1837.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed: by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Third Edition: with the Author's Last Corrections and an Appendix, and with a Synoptical Table of the Contents of the Work. By Henry Nelson Coleridge. Pickering's woodcut device on the titles. Three volumes. Small 8vo. [169 x 100 x 77 mm]. xx, [ii], 278 pp; [2]ff, 261pp; [2]ff, 355pp. Bound in contemporary half purple roan, cloth sides, the spines divided into six panels and lettered in the second and third, plain endleaves, top edge gilt. There are a few early pencil marks and notes in vol.1 and occasional spotting in vol.2, but it is a very good copy. The bindings appear to be by the same workshop but are not entirely uniform - vol.3 has a different cloth to the other two. This is the first Pickering edition, and was followed by further editions in 1844 and 1850. Bookplate of William Charles Cotton (1813-1879), the writer on bees.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$3150.92 + shipping
Description: Together 12 vols., sm. 8vo. and 16mo.; elegantly and uniformly bound in nineteenth-century half dark blue crushed morocco, marbled boards ruled in gilt, backs with five raised bands, second and third compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral design, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean collection in wholly unrestored period binding. The collection comprises: The Friend (3 vols.; third edition; Pickering 1837); Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (first edition; Pickering 1840); Aids to Reflection (2 vols; fifth edition; Pickering 1843); Essays on his Own Times (3 vols; Pickering 1850); Notes on English Divines (2 vols; Moxon 1853); Notes Theological, Political and Miscellaneous (Moxon 1853). AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF THE POET'S POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED WORKS, ALL SAVE THE FIRST AND THIRD WORKS IN FIRST EDITION. The first three works are edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, the fourth by Sara Coleridge, the fifth and sixth by Derwent Coleridge. First work: NCBEL III, 217; Shepherd p.65; Wise 23. Second work: NCBEL III, 219; Shepherd p.65; Wise 88. Third work: NCBEL III, 219; Shepherd p.53 (recording Taylor & Hessey's single-volume edition, 1825); Wise 62. Fourth work: NCBEL III, 220; Shepherd p.66; Wise 94 . Fifth work: NCBEL III, 221; Shepherd p.67; Wise 95. Sixth work: NCBEL III,221; Shepherd p.68; Wise 96.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom