May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 324

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR; AND ROBERT SOUTHEY. Autograph Manuscript by Coleridge, unsigned, a biblical quotation, 5 lines from 1 Kings, 18:44-45. With a holograph attestation Signed by Southey, at lower right of same page: "This is S.T Coleridge's writing / Robert Southey." 3x9 1/4 inches; short separation at fold repaired verso with tissue, remnants of prior mounting at few points near upper edge verso, faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, folds. (MRS) Np, [after 1810]

Additional Details

"Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea . . . ."
Following the quotation are Coleridge's holograph words "in Kehama notes p. 283," likely referring to the notes section of Southey's book, The Curse of Kehama.