The Friend

London: William Pickering , 1850. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. The fourth edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Friend', a series of essays concerning literary, moral, and philosophic matters. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's series of essays titled The Friend, in which Coleridge sets out to provide a philosophic and perceptive understanding of human nature and morality. These essays cover a wide range of topics and interests, including literary, religious, political, moral, philosophic, and more. The fourth edition of this work.Complete in three volumes, bound with the advertisements and the front of Volume I and half titles to all volumes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1722-1834) was an English poet and literary critic, and is seen as a founder member of the Romantic Movement along with his friend William Wordsworth. His volumes are read and analysed to this day and he collaborated with numerous other Romantic poets of this era including Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. Including a synoptical table of contents of the work by Henry Nelson Coleridge. Uniformly bound in embossed cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some light shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, page v to vi in Volume I is detached but present, and the front hinge to Volume III is starting. A few instances of spotting to the pages, though most remain bright and clean. Very Good