Essays On His Own Times Forming a Second Series of The Friend, Edited by His Daughter. 3 Volumes. Hatchard Signed Binding.

Essays On His Own Times Forming a Second Series of The Friend, Edited by His Daughter. 3 Volumes. Hatchard Signed Binding. 1850. London: William Pickering.

12mo. (4" x 6.5") 3 volumes. Half brown calf with corners, single gilt rule to all leather edges, over reddish cloth covers. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title to gilt-framed second compartment, gilt author/vol# to gilt-framed third compartment, gilt cube device in each other compartment, gilt year at foot, gilt rule to head and foot of spine: marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Minor edgewear; corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Signed binding by Hatchards.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.