[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772?1834). Po...

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  [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772?1834). Poems Chosen Out of the Works of? Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896. 8vo. Printed in Golden type in red and black, woodcut title?page and facing page with full woodcut page?border, 10?line and smaller woodcut initial capitals. Original limp vellum with silk ties, spine gilt?stamped. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on Flower paper of a total edition of 308. In a letter written in response to Ellis on selecting Coleridge?s poems, Morris wrote: ?There is absolutely no difficulty in choosing, because the difference between his poetry and his drivel is so striking?. It is the last of the series to which Tennyson?s Maud, and the poems of Rossetti, Keats, Shelley, and Herrick belong. A PRISTINE COPY. A Note by William Morris 38; Franklin, Private Press p. 192; Peterson A38; Ransom, Kelmscott 38.
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