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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Aids to Reflection . London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Aids to Reflection . London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825. 8° (183 x 111 mm). 4-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Lacking pp. xv-xvi which contained a printed list of Additions and Corrections.) Mid-19th-century half black roan (some wear, upper joint cracked); maroon quarter-morocco gilt slipcase. Provenance : SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (the author’s copy, annotated by him throughout, some notes trimmed when rebound, especially at the fore-margins); Sophia Raby Gillman, daughter of Coleridge’s close friend and physician James Gillman (her signature on title-page); with James F. Drake, Inc.; Doris Benz (her sale Christie’s New York, 16 November 1984, lot 65). FIRST EDITION, WITH AUTOGRAPH ANNOTATIONS AND CORRECTIONS BY COLERIDGE to the text on 29 pages. On a small scrap pasted to the front free endpaper Coleridge has noted that at pp.190-191 "will be found my Creed as a Christian digested in Seven Articles..." Interestingly, on these pages only 5 of the articles are numbered in print; Coleridge numbers the sixth and seventh by hand. In the second edition of 1831, Coleridge’s “creed” is corrected to include the seven articles in accordance with the numbering in this copy. Coleridge’s other annotations throughout the book include word substitutions (p.21, 22, 23, etc), deletion of text (p.194), renumbering of paragraphs (p.23, 24) and the insertion of explanatory notes (as at pp.244-245, where some 60 words are written in the margins). AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY : The title-page bears the ownership inscription of Sophia Raby Gillman, the daughter of James Gillman, in whose home Coleridge and his wife resided from 1816 until his death in 1834. This is copy 10 of thirteen known annotated copies of Aids of Reflection : listed in Collected Works , IX, ed. John Beer (1993), pp. 479-83, then listed as “Not located.” Ashley I, pp. 211-2; Wise, Coleridge 58.