May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
MASTER OF MARGINALIA WRITES IN HIS COPY COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Thomas Abbts. Vermischte Werke. Signature ("S.T. Coleridge") on title-page and 11 holograph lines of notes, unsigned, on rear blank. Fourth volume only. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 roan marbled boards; moderate toning and foxing to title-page, recent owner inscription to front free endpaper. Berlin, 1780; inscription: Np, nd
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Coleridge's note: "Leben und Character / Alexand. Gottl. Baumgartens. / Mildly is this account written; / but for that very mildness affords / one of the most striking Instances / of the Bigotry of Intolerance of / that infidel Illuminantism / which was then in the Bud / and Blossom and of which / the present age has plucked / & tried the poisonous Fruits."