[COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor] KING CHARLES I

A Large Declaration Concerning The Late Tumults in Scotland, From Their First Origianlls: Together with A Particular Deduction of the Seditious Practices of the Prime Leaders of the Covenanters...[Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Copy with His Initials to Ti

      London: Robert Young, 1639. First Edition. Folio. [2], 430pp, [2]. Without portrait frontispiece, but with imprimateur leaf to rear. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Heavily rubbed, with loss to extremities. Upper joint split. Later endpapers, hinges reinforced. Title laid down, with loss to edges. Some marking and staining throughout. Worming (mostly marginal), to gutter and lower margin, sporadically from T2 to end, with some loss of catchwords, and some loss of letters to text from one wormhole, with no loss of sense. Some worming to front and rear endpapers/boards. Stained throughout. 'Georgii Newell Liberl - price 6d' inscription to title, along with initials 'STC' in a manner very similar to, and likely that of Coleridge's hand. Coupled with the bookplate of Derwent Coleridge, his second son, to FEP, it is likely that this is from the poet's own library. A scarce contemporary collection of documents of the struggle between the English Throne and the Covenanters of Scotland which was only to add to the problems of Charles I, and contribute to the causes and military difficulties of the English Civil War, with a most interesting literary provenance. STC 21906.