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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- A Hebrew Dirge Chaunted in the Great Synagogue, St. James's Place, Aldgate, on the Day of the Funeral of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. By Hyman Hurwitz ... with a Translation into English Verse by S. T. Coleridge. London: by H. Barnett and Sold by T. Boosey, 1817.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (221 x 137 mm). Half-title, Hebrew and English facing text; a fresh copy. Red morocco, gilt extra.
first edition of the first of Coleridge's two Hebrew dirge translations. A considerably abridged version of the first is published in several posthumous editions of Coleridge's poetry, beginning in 1852. Near the end of the century Richard Herne Shepherd judged it "of the utmost rarity. "I bought a copy at a dingy old bookstall in Gray's Inn Lane, for a few pence, in 1876; and the late Mr. B. M. Pickering gave me five guineas for it" (The Bibliography of Coleridge ... Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by Col. W. F. Prideaux, London, 1900, pp. 47-8).
first edition of the first of Coleridge's two Hebrew dirge translations. A considerably abridged version of the first is published in several posthumous editions of Coleridge's poetry, beginning in 1852. Near the end of the century Richard Herne Shepherd judged it "of the utmost rarity. "I bought a copy at a dingy old bookstall in Gray's Inn Lane, for a few pence, in 1876; and the late Mr. B. M. Pickering gave me five guineas for it" (The Bibliography of Coleridge ... Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by Col. W. F. Prideaux, London, 1900, pp. 47-8).
Literature
Wise, Coleridge, 47; Healey 1728; Tinker 701.