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London: No Publisher, 1840. xii, 222pp. Original quarter morocco and cloth binding, gilt title to spine. Spine faded, rubbed, especially to outer joints, slightly chipped to head. Slightly browned internally, but generally fairly clean, previous owners' (William Joyner Ellis) armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Twelve full-page engravings (as called for). Presentation copy from the author to Ellis. Presentation Copy from Author. First Edition. Quarter Morocco and Cloth. Good. 8vo.

London: John Murray, 1826. [4], 332pp. Bound in modern half-calf and marbled boards, raised bands, spine divided into six panels, morocco title label to second panel, gilt double rules either side of bands. Externally very good indeed, internally lightly foxed throughout, usually to margins but occasionally to text. Occasional pencil lines in margins, but generally clean. Coleridge, Henry Nelson (1798-1843), barrister and writer, "at Christmas 1822 Henry Coleridge met his cousin Sara Coleridge ... the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... and by March 1823 they were engaged. His only sister Fanny, the only person to know of this, anticipated family disapproval and cautioned that it should be kept secret, but a year later Henry Coleridge told his father and shortly afterwards was sent to the West Indies to accompany his cousin, William Hart Coleridge, who was to become bishop of Barbados. The reason for his trip was ostensibly to improve his health, which was indeed poor throughout his life, but… Read More

London: A. Strahan for T.N. Longman and O. Rees et al, 1802. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xxiii, [1], 552pp and Volume Two - xxx, [2], 523pp, [1]. Half morocco and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author and volume to fourth, remaining panels with gilt lozenge tool to centre. Modern reback, small amounts of chipping and loss to paper covering boards, corners worn. Internally some light off-setting from some plates, very minor browning and occasional spots of foxing, in volume two the fore-edge of AA2 with some loss (not affecting text) and there is a repair to 3X2v (again not affecting text), plate six with a small stain to upper right hand corner, but generally quite bright and clean. Complete with fifty-two stipple engravings, including twenty-two folding, three folding maps (another map is listed as an engraving - so there are actually four) and twenty-nine vignettes (one unlisted), most of which are hand-coloured. Tooley notes that… Read More

London: Balne [Printer], 1836. Single sided printed hand bill, approximately 95mm x 265mm in size. Browned, trimmed quite closely, some creasing and a couple of tiny nicks. The printer was probably [Giles] Balne (fl.1799-1838) of Gracechurch Street, London (BBTI). The 'Mr. Green' was almost certainly Charles Green (1785-1864), a professional balloonist between 1821 and 1840, this being his two hundred twenty-fourth aerial voyage. Later that year (November 1836), Green, with Mason and Holland, flew from Vauxhall Gardens London in the 'Royal Vauxhall'. The flight covered a record distance (until 1907) of 480 miles, landing in Germany after eighteen hours. Green was the first to use "coal-gas" for lift (1821), the first to use a drag rope for ballast and he made five cross-channel attempts, with three being successful, and two ending in the sea (information from ballooninghistory). Admission was two shillings and sixpence, with the Coldstream and Quadrille bands also attending. See Altick, 'The Shows of… Read More