Miscellaneous. [Scott (Sir Walter)], Harold the Dauntless; a...

Estimate

£50 - £70

Miscellaneous. [Scott (Sir Walter)], Harold the Dauntless; a Poem, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co., et al., 1817, rear pastedown inscribed in pencil: Todd & Bowden 100A/(state 2 of 1st edn -/p. 47 line 6 'maid,'), original publisher's boards, disbound, perished spine, pastedown and endpapers with ownership inscription dated 1866, 8vo, [&] [Scripture] Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Church in the Time of the late Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory [...], Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1822, contemporary calf gilt, chips to spine and joints, but holding, marbled edges, 8vo, (2)

Provenance: 2nd: The Right Reverend William Hart Coleridge (1789-1849), the first colonial Bishop of Barbados (1824-1842) and nephew of the great Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; his crested ink ownership stamp to pastedown, surmounted by a mitre. Given the dates of Coleridge's life and the imprint, as well as the mitre, there is every reason to believe that this book was taken by him to the Caribbean.