COLERIDGE S[amuel] T[aylor] Christabel; Kubla Khan A Vision;

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"DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA" COLERIDGE, S[amuel] T[aylor]. Christabel; Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep. 8vo, later 19th-century tan calf, triple-fillet covers, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, by Riviere & Son. London: William Bulmer for John Murray, 1816

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first edition. With all 3 half-titles, lacking advertisements. A wide-margined, clean copy. In his note on Kubla Khan, Coleridge euphemizes his partaking of opium as "an anodyne." Hayward 207; Tinker 693.