£500
Derwent Coleridge's Copy. Tasso (Torquato) & Hoole (John, translator), Jerusalem Delivered, London: Suttaby, Evance & Fox, 1819, engraved frontispiece and title-page, contemporary diced purple calf gilt, all edges gilt, blue endpapers, 12mo
Provenance: The Reverend Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883), third son of the great Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834); recto blank with his ink MS ownership inscription dated 6th November 1820, and noting beneath that this was the day he was declared a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The autographed leaf now loose.
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