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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- The Plot Discovered; or An Address to the People, Against Ministerial Treason. [bound with:] Conciones Ad Populum. Or Addresses to the People. [both:] Bristol: Printed for the Author, 1795.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (167 x 101 mm). Many pages uncut. Red morocco, gilt extra; tiny wormhole at lower joint, not passing through text.
Literature
Sterling 184; Tinker 675; Wise, Coleridge 3 and 4.
Catalogue Note
first editions of these rare pamphlets. Coleridge used the texts from his lectures given in the winter of 1794 and spring of 1795 for these works. Conciones uses the famine of 1794 to argue for political change and the Plot Discovered addresses the despotism of the Gagging Acts.