The Bijou; or Annual of Literature and the Arts.
London. William Pickering. 1828. 1828. Hardcover. 16mo, 16cm, xiv,319,[4]p., ads., with 10 steel engraved plates including frontis, engraved title vignette, 4 head-piece engravings, in contemporary quarter crimson roan, decorated gilt spine title, decorated paper board covers, covers worn with most of decoration faded, foxing, a.e.g., missing front free-endpaper, bit shaken, good to very good (Lds). - "Mr. Coleridge, in the most liberal manner, permitted the Editor to select what pleased him from all his unpublished MSS." (Preface). Coleridge's contributions are "The Wanderings of Cain", "Work without hope", "Youth and Age", "A Day Dream" and "The Two Founts". Includes an engraving of Sir Walter Scott and family painted by David Wilkie with an explanatory letter by Scott. Other notable contributors include Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Thomas Hood. Item #21430
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