Ko.4.26 (copy 1)
Ko.4.27 (copy 2)
Ko.4.28 (copy 3)
Poems / by Mary E. Coleridge.
London : Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, 1908 [i.e. 1907]
[2], xxi, [1], 214, [2] p. ; 16 cm.
Preface signed: Henry Newbolt.
Includes half-title.
Unnumbered blank leaf preceding half-title signed "a" included in pagination statement.
Includes poems published previously under titles "Fancy's following" and "Fancy's guerdon".
Publisher's dark green cloth case binding with cover title stamped in gilt within decorative border on upper cover; blind decorative border on lower cover; spine title stamped in gilt; untrimmed edges. Binding variant has blue cloth.
[Copy 1] Presentation copy inscribed on leaf preceding half-title by the editor Henry Newbolt: "Ella from H.N. December 1907" i.e. Ella Coltman, with his poem "Turn back, my soul". Individual poems dated in pencil. Loosely inserted items: undated fragment of ALS from Mary Coleridge with note in another hand signed "V" [possibly Violet Hodgkin]; 2 cards with page references in pencil; ms. copy of poem "St Patrick's breastplte or The cry of the deer".
[Copy 2] Inscribed on flyleaf to "Rennell Coleridge from A. D. Coleridge, December 1907. In piam memoriam." Inscribed on half-title: "Alwyne H B Coleridge. 18 Dec: 1978. From Betty Christabel Cave, daughter of Rennell Coleridge." and identifying A. D. Coleridge as the poet's father.
[Copy 3] Inscribed in pencil on flyleaf: Henry Newbolt. Margaret E. Newbolt. Poems dated in pencil with some ms. annotations.
[Copy 3] Binding variant in blue cloth.
English poetry 19th century.
Newbolt, Margaret Edina Duckworth, 1867 - ? Lady former owner.
Newbolt, Henry John, 1862 - 1938 Sir former owner.
Coltman, Ella. former owner.
Newbolt, Henry John, 1862 - 1938 Sir editor.
Coleridge, Arthur Duke, 1830 - 1913 former owner.
E. Mathews (Firm) publisher.
England London.
B48728