De Quincey (Thomas).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Notes on English Divines, 2 vol., first edition, early issue with 8pp. publisher's catalogue at beginning of vol.1 dated October 1852, half-titles, Thomas de Quincey's copy with his extensive ink annotations relating to the text on front and rear endpapers, occasional soiling, front hinge of vol. I weak and lacking free endpaper, original brown cloth, rubbed and marked, upper cover of vol.1 a little mottled by damp, 1853; and another by De Quincey, 8vo (3) ⁂ De Quincey's criticism of Coleridge's observations. De Quincey writes in Vol. II "That S.T.C. was not sober, was drunk with alcohol in 2 at least of these sections - viz. in that on Leighton when the passion took a maudlin and lachrymose turn, but above all in that on the Barrister's pampl. agt. Calvinistic Methodism, - where he really needs a strait-waistcoat, - I feel satisfied." and "p.124-5 - raving drunk". Provenance: Pencil note in vol. I by James Stevens Cox reads, "With notes by Thomas de Quincey in his autograph. Bought from Mrs De Quincey Craig Dorchester 1962 with other De Quincey MSS".
De Quincey (Thomas).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Notes on English Divines, 2 vol., first edition, early issue with 8pp. publisher's catalogue at beginning of vol.1 dated October 1852, half-titles, Thomas de Quincey's copy with his extensive ink annotations relating to the text on front and rear endpapers, occasional soiling, front hinge of vol. I weak and lacking free endpaper, original brown cloth, rubbed and marked, upper cover of vol.1 a little mottled by damp, 1853; and another by De Quincey, 8vo (3) ⁂ De Quincey's criticism of Coleridge's observations. De Quincey writes in Vol. II "That S.T.C. was not sober, was drunk with alcohol in 2 at least of these sections - viz. in that on Leighton when the passion took a maudlin and lachrymose turn, but above all in that on the Barrister's pampl. agt. Calvinistic Methodism, - where he really needs a strait-waistcoat, - I feel satisfied." and "p.124-5 - raving drunk". Provenance: Pencil note in vol. I by James Stevens Cox reads, "With notes by Thomas de Quincey in his autograph. Bought from Mrs De Quincey Craig Dorchester 1962 with other De Quincey MSS".
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