Coleridge Marginalia Lost

In 1961 I gave some account of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s books and the way he had collected and annotated them, and how they had been dispersed before and after his death.[1]  The disposition of the annotated and marked books, as known at that time, was digested into a table showing how many titles were in permanent collections in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada; and there was a note on the number of books known to be in private collections.  Generally speaking our knowledge of the number of these books has not altered much in the past seven years.  A few books have passed from private hands into permanent collections, but only a very few hitherto unidentified books have come to light.

At least six annotated books of Coleridge’s, as well as some Wordsworth association books and others associated with the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle, have been transferred to the Dove Cottage Museum by Mrs Dorothy Dickson, and some marked books formerly in the possession of Miss Joanna Hutchinson have also gone to Dove Cottage.  Professor S. G. Dunn’s annotated copy of John Donne’s LXXX Sermons (London 1640) has since his death gone with a substantial part of his Donne collection to the Bodleian Library, and the late R. C. Bald’s copy of John Strype’s History of the Life and Acts of Edmund Grindal (London 1710) is now in the University of Chicago library.  The annotated Gillman copy of Joseph Blanco White’s Letters from Spain (London 1822) is now at Keble College, Oxford.  A few marked and annotated books appear to have been acquired by the University of Texas from the Coleridge family.  The most important group of books to be rediscovered was never actually missing: five annotated books – all of them of unusual interest – had eluded my attention although they have been in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library for more than 20 years: John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress with Southey’s ‘Life’ (London 1820); George Herbert, The Temple (London 1674); Thomas Randolph, Poems (London 1652); Robert Southey, Joan of Arc (Bristol 1796) and The Life of Wesley (London 1820).[2]

The marginalia in all these books have been known to me for some time, either in the originals or from imperfect and incomplete transcripts.  But three books with notes previously unrecorded have also turned up, two in the original and one in transcript.  In September 1961 Miss Kathleen Coburn identified as Coleridge’s a single pencil note in an anonymous quarto tract in the British Museum: Some Animadversions upon the Declaration of, and the Plea for the Army (Dublin 1659), perhaps by Robert Chambre.  A copy of this tract was one of 26 items ‘relating to the time of Cromwell’ in a bound volume sold in Gillman’s library (No. 123, see below).  When the volume was intact Ernest Hartley Coleridge made a transcript (now in the Victoria College Library) of notes written in seven of the tracts including Some Animadversions.  The annotated BM copy of Some Animadversions was acquired 7 December 1871, showing that the volume had been broken up by that date: certainly none of the other annotated tracts known to have been in this volume is now in the British Museum.  Again, in 1965 an annotated copy of George Lavington’s anonymous The Moravians Compared and Detected (London 1755) was identified in a private collection in England; I have not come across any reference by Coleridge to this book though his quizzical interest in the Moravians is not hard to uncover.  Finally, only a short time ago, Richard Haven came upon a previously unrecorded Coleridge note printed in the British Magazine of 1837 from Coleridge’s copy of William Cave’s Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria, 2 vols, London 1688-89 (see No. 21 below).  That Coleridge made good use of Cave’s compendious and learned volumes has been well known from the Notebooks, and his copy is recorded in the MS catalogue of Wordsworth’s library, checked off as ‘sent to D’ (that is, Coleridge’s son Derwent); but it has not previously been known that his copy was annotated.

The various records that have made it possible to trace the lines of dispersal of Coleridge’s library have also made it possible, when combined with other kinds of evidence, to attempt a substantial reconstruction of the books Coleridge owned from time to time and the books that he used when they were in his possession for only a limited period.  The presence of marginalia is not a certain test of the importance of a book in Coleridge’s mind and use: some books were important to him at too early a date to be annotated (fluent annotation begins in 1801, and the most copious notes were written from 1808 onwards with rather heavy emphasis on the years from 1816); some books were too rare to be written in (Giordano Bruno, for example), or too precious (his 1485 Hugo de St Victor and the polyglot Georgics), or they belonged to libraries – though that was not always an insuperable restraint – or to people who would not brook the spoiling of a page even by so distinguished a hand as his.  The marginalia cannot give a complete record of his intellectual commerce with books.  Yet beyond what the notes actually say, which is more often than not impressive enough, the annotated books provide a vivid image of the working of his mind; and in tracing that activity there is no substitute for the originals and for the actual handwriting with its clues to his state of mind, the occasion of writing, and the relative order in which the notes were written, sometimes layer on layer.

In any case, the edition of all the notes Coleridge wrote in printed books (other than books of his own making) is now nearly finished.  I have therefore drawn up a list of all the lost books that are known to have Coleridge notes written in them, in the hope that some of them will be recognized for what they are or that persons who have any of these books and know what they are may be aware of the interest they hold for editors of Coleridge’s writings.

The list comprises 141 items and is made up of two kinds of books: 73 for which we have a transcript of all or some of the notes, and 68 which are known to have been annotated but for which no transcript or detailed description is preserved (these are marked with a star (*) in the list).  From the collector’s point of view it is presumably more desirable to discover – or to discover that one owns – a book with hitherto unrecorded notes; but the books with notes already wholly or partly recorded are also valuable and interesting; they are also much easier to verify.  Even with these, however, there are problems of identification and description.  There are instances of Coleridge annotating more than one copy or edition of a book; in some cases Coleridge’s notes have been transcribed more or less accurately into another copy of the work he had originally annotated (these I call ‘MS facsimiles’ – they are not forgeries); and I have record of several ‘ghosts’ – either books incorrectly described as containing Coleridge’s notes, or non-existent books brought into being by clerical error or misunderstanding (like the annotated copy of John Anster’s Poems 1819 which in passing through a sequence of three sale catalogues was transformed into Jane Austen’s Poems).  Only a careful examination of an actual book can settle questions of this kind.  And although there is a superior excitement to discovering – or even seeing – a set of notes which have not been in the canon before, I know of no set of notes that has not been extended or clarified or better understood by studying the original, even though a recent printed version may exist.

As editor of the volumes of Marginalia for the Collected Works of S. T. Coleridge, I should be grateful for any information about any of the books listed below; and since I cannot presume to suppose that my list is definitive, I should also be happy to receive information about any book that contains, or is thought to contain, notes in Coleridge’s hand.

                        UNLOCATED BOOKS WITH MS NOTES BY COLERIDGE

Short titles are given, with date and place of publication when known; London is the place of publication unless otherwise indicated.  A note is added giving information (when known) of the original owner of the book if not Coleridge, the family collection or sale catalogue with which it is associated, and the last known record if later than the sale through which the book was first dispersed.

A star (*) means that no published version or transcript of the notes – even in part – has been found.  In the unstarred entries, the number of marginal notes should be read as ‘x notes at least’ as a reminder that comparison of originals with printed and MS transcripts of marginalia and with sale catalogue descriptions shows that notes have often been omitted from transcripts and overlooked in catalogue descriptions.  The same is probably true of some books described simply as having Coleridge’s signature or name written in, or a note of presentation to or from him: many of these have been recorded and identified, but they are too numerous to include in this list.

ABBREVIATIONS

Derwent SC: second Sotheby sale of Derwent Coleridge’s library, 2 July 1891.

Gillman SC: Southgate sale of James Gillman’s library, 1 April 1843.

Green SC: Sotheby sale of Joseph Henry Green’s library, 27 July 1880.

Herbert SC: Sotheby sale of Herbert Coleridge’s library, 10 April 1862.

Lamb SC: Bartlett & Welford, New York, sale of a small selection of Charles Lamb’s library, Feb. 1848.

Southey SC: Sotheby sale of Robert Southey’s library, 8 May 1844.[3]

Wordsworth SC: Burton (of Preston) sale of William Wordsworth’s library at Ambleside, 19 July 1859.[4]

            * 1. AMORY, T.  The Life of John Buncle.  London [n.d.].

            Lamb’s copy.  Lamb SC.  In the possession of the Rosenbach Company 1947.

            *2. ASH, C. B.  Adbaston.  Bath 1814.

            In the 1831 edition of his Poems, Ash describes a copy of Adbaston with critical comments written by Coleridge for his benefit.

            *3. ATHERSTONE, E.  The Last Days of Herculaneum, &c.  1821.

            Green SC: ‘with autograph note by S. T. Coleridge’.  Sold in New York by Scribner & Welford 1884.[5]

            *4. BAKER, RACHEL.  Remarkable Sermons and Pious Ejaculations, delivered during sleep, taken in shorthand.  1815.

            Green SC: ‘with an interesting MS note by S. T. Coleridge of 44 lines’.

            5. BATEMAN, T.  A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases.  1814 [?].

            One note on a front fly-leaf.  Dr Henry Daniel’s copy, lent to Coleridge in 1814, when Daniel was Coleridge’s physician.

            6. BIRCH, W.  A Sermon on the Prevalence of Infidelity.  Oxford 1818.

            One note.  Henry Francis Cary’s copy.

            7. BOERHAAVE, H.  A New Method of Chemistry.  1727.

            Twelve notes.  Gillman SC.

            8. Book of Common Prayer.  [n.p., n.d.]

            Poem of 12 lines, written by Coleridge as an undergraduate.  Once in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge.

            9. Book of Common Prayer.  Cambridge 1755.

            Thirty-one notes.  Gillman family.

            *10. BRENCMANN, H.  Historia Pandectarum.  Trajecti ad Rhenum 1722.

            Sold at Puttick’s 31 Jan. 1907.

            *11. BROWNE, Sir T.  Religio Medici.  1658.

            In the possession of Dr Lloyd Roberts, Manchester 1903.

            *12. BROWNE, Sir T.  Religio Medici.  1658.

            In the possession of Dr Lloyd Roberts, Manchester 1903.  Reported by W. E. A. Axon (1903) as annotated by Coleridge.

            *13. BROWNE, Sir T.  [Works.]  Pseudodoxia Epidemica, &c.  1686.

            Gillman SC: ‘Numerous MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge.’  This is not the same as the Sara Hutchinson copy, but may be a MS facsimile of it.

            *14. BULL, G.  Confessio Fidei.  3 vols.  Ticini 1784-6.

            Green SC: ‘With an autograph note by S. T. Coleridge.’  Also described by H. N. Coleridge in Table Talk 8 July 1827.  Sold in New York by Scribner & Welford 1884.

            *15. BURNET, G.  History of his own Time.  2 vols.  Dublin 1724, 1734.

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            16. BURNET, G.  The History of the Reformation.  2 vols.  Dublin 1730, 1683.

            Ten notes.  Gillman SC.

            *17. [BURTON, R.]  The Anatomy of Melancholy.  By Democritus Junior.  Oxford 1621.

            Lamb’s copy.  Noticed in ‘The Two Races of Men’ (1820) as annotated by Coleridge but nowhere else described.  The other two books mentioned in that essay as annotated have been located and do in fact have notes in them: the Anatomy of Melancholy is therefore probably annotated.  Lamb said in his essay that this book was ‘now, alas! in Pagan lands’ – whatever that means.

            18. BUTLER, C.  Vindication of the ‘Book of the Roman Catholic Church’.  1826.

            Six notes, and possibly Coleridge’s poem ‘Sancti Dominici Pallium’ on a front fly-leaf.  Coleridge’s title to the poem says that it was written ‘at the beginning of Butler’s Book of the Church’, but other evidence strongly suggests that it was in fact written in his copy of Butler’s Vindication.

            19. BUTLER, J.  Analogy of Religion.  1791.

            Three notes.

            20. CAPPER, B. J.  A Topographical Dictionary.  1813.

            One note.  In the possession of F. T. Barnard, Bristol, in 1834.

            21. CAVE, W.  Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria.  2 vols.  1688, 1689.

            One note.  In the possession of ‘B’ in 1837.

            22. CERVANTES, M. de.  The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote.  Trans. Charles Jarvis.  4 vols.  1809.

            Twenty-eight notes.

            23. CHALMERS, A.  Works of the English Poets.  21 vols.  1810.

            Five notes, in Vol. III, V. ? Green SC.

            24. CHILLINGWORTH, W.  The Works.  1742.

            Nine notes at least.

            *25. CLARMUNDUS, A.  Lebensbeschreibung des weltherühmten Polyhistoris.  4 vols in one.  Wittenberg 1708.

            Green SC: ‘With an Index at the end, in the autograph of S. T. Coleridge.’

            26. CLAUDIAN.  Opera.  Amsterdam 1677.

            One note.  Green SC: ‘With the two autographs on fly-leaf: E. Libris R. Southey, Regiae Scholae Westmonast.  A.D.  1788.  S. T. Coleridge from Robert Southey, June 10, 1810.’  In the possession of Thomas Arnold in 1884.

            *27. COCCEIUS, J.  Opera omnia.  10 vols.  Amsterdam 1701.

            A number of notes, some in vol. V.  A set belonging to Mr [? John] Tudor, lent to Coleridge from July 1825 to late 1827.

            28. COLEBROOKE, G.  Six Letters on Intolerance.  1791.

            One note.

            *29. COLLIER J. P.  History of English Dramatic Poetry.  3 vols.  1831.

            Derwent SC: ‘Important autograph notes of S. T. Coleridge.’

            30. COLQUHOUN, P.  A Treatise on Indigence.  1826.

            Two notes.  Thomas Poole’s copy; in the possession of Richard Hearne Shepherd 1862.

            31. COWLEY, A.  The Works.  2 vols.  1681.

            Three notes and drawing of a grotesque head.  Wordsworth SC.  Later in the possession of Edward Dowden

            32. [DANCE OF DEATH.]  Todtentanz.  [n.p., n.d.]

            Thomas Poole’s copy.  A draft of Coleridge’s epitaph on a fly-leaf.

            33. DAVISON, J.  Discourses on Prophecy.  1825.

            Twenty-three notes.

            *34. [DILLON-LEE, H. A.]  The Life and Opinions of Sr. R. Maltravers.  2 vols.  1822.

            Green SC: ‘Presentation copy from the author, with autograph inscription to S. T. Coleridge, and MS. notes in the handwriting of the letter.’

            *35. DUNBAR, W.  The Poems.  2 vols.  Edinburgh & London 1834.

            Derwent SC: ‘A few autograph notes of S. T. Coleridge [in Vol I], bookplate of Rev. D. Coleridge.’

            36. EDINBURGH.  Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal.  Vol. XIV, XXIV, XXXIII.  Edinburgh 1818, 1825, 1830.

            Thirteen notes.  Gillman SC.  In the possession of E. J. Waring in 1843.

            *37. EDINBURGH.  Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh.  Vol. II.  Edinburgh 1826.

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            *38. Encyclopaedia Britannica.  [An unidentified portion, bound up with T. Stackhouse, Copies of Drawings [n.d.] and D. Stewart, Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy (which was ‘Supplementary Dissertation’, Pt i, of Encyclopaedia Britannica 1824).]

            Green SC: ‘With MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge, but partly cut away by binder.’  The unidentified section may contain Samuel Purkis’s article on Tanning.

            *38A. FALCONER, W.  The Shipwreck.  [Edition not identified.]

            An annotated copy presented by Coleridge to F. T. Barnard ‘when Mr Coleridge left Bristol’ in about 1814.  A letter of Barnard’s of 15 Oct. 1834 suggests that the book may have been destroyed when his warehouse was burned in the Bristol Riots.

            *39. FARMER. H.  An Examination of Le Moine’s Treatise on Miracles.  1810. 

            Gillman, SC: ‘With Note by Mr. Coleridge.’

            *40. FAUVELET de Bourienne.  Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte.  4 vols.  1830.

            Parke-Bernet sale, 29 Jan. 1952.  ‘S. T. Coleridge’s copy with notes comprising several lines in his autograph on over 30 pages, initials on fly-leaf, with 8-line note, all in pencil.’

            41. FÉNELON, F. de la Salignac de la Mothe.  [Title not identified.  Possibly Lettres de M. de Cambrai à M. de Meaux en réponse aux divers écrits ou mémoires sur le livre des Maximes.]

            One long note ‘on Charity’.  Gillman family.

            *42. FEST. J. S.  Versuch über die Vortheile der Leiden und wider Würtigkeiten des menschlichen Lebens.  2 vols.  Leipzig 1789.

            Green SC: ‘With autograph and MS. Note by S. T. Coleridge.’  Sold in New York by Scribner & Welford 1884.

            43. FIELDING, H.  Jonathan Wild.  [Edition not identified.]

            One note.  Gillman family.

            *44. FIELDING, H.  Joseph Andrews.  [Edition not identified.]

            One note on a fly-leaf.  Described in a notebook entry of 1830 as ‘Page’s’ copy, borrowed by J. H. Green in order to transcribe the Coleridge note.

            *45. FISCHER, F. C. J.  De prima expeditione Attilae regis Hunnorum in Gallias.  Leipzig 1780.

            Green SC: ‘With autograph and several MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge.’  Sold in New York by Scriber & Welford 1884.

            *46. FOSTER J.  The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation.  1734.

            Green SC: ‘With autograph note by S. T. Coleridge.’  Sold in New York by Scribner & Welford 1884.

            47. [FRERE, J. H.]  Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work by William and Robert Whistlecraft.  1817.

            Gillman SC: ‘With curious MS. Note by S. T. Coleridge.’  In the possession of J. T. Brown in 1864.

            48. FULLER, A.  The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined.  Market Harborough 1793.

            Five notes.

            49. FULLER, T.  Life out of Death.  1655.  [Bound with Fuller’s Triple Reconciler.]

            Four notes.  ? Gillman family.

            50. FULLER, T.  A Triple Reconciler.  1654.

            Three notes.  ? Gillman family.

            *51. [GALT, J.]  Sir Andrew Wylie.  3 vols.  Edinburgh 1822.

            Green SC: ‘Notes by S. T. Coleridge, presentation copy from the Author.’

            52. [GALT, J.]  The Provost.  3 vols.  Edinburgh [? 1822].

            One note.  Green SC.  In the possession of A. J. Ashley, 1930.

            *53.  GARVE, C.  Fragmente zur Schilderung des Geistes, des Characters, und des Regierung Friederichs des zweyten.  2 vols.  Breslau 1798; Uebersicht der vornehmsten Principien der Sittenlehre.  2 vols.  Breslau 1798; Vermischte Aufsätze.  2 vols.  Breslau [?]; Versuche.  4 vols.  Breslau 1792 [?].

            Green SC: ‘together 10 vol. some of the vols. with MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            54. GRAY, T.  The Works.  2 vols.  1814.

            Four notes.

            55. GREVILLE, Fulke, Baron Brooke.  Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes.  1633.

            Eight notes.  Lamb’s copy.  Apparently in the possession of H. S. Young in 1893.

            *56. GROTIUS, H.  De jure belli et pacis.  Amsterdam 1763.

            Derwent SC: ‘Autograph notes of S. T. Coleridge; autograph of H. N. Coleridge on title-page.’

            57. HEWITT, J.  ‘Hewitt’s Sermons.’  [Edition not identified.]

            Gillman family.  No description of the notes.

            58. HOBBES, T.  Leviathan.  1651.

            Two notes.  ? Southey SC.

            *59. HÖLTY, L. H. C.  Gedichte.  Frankfurt 1792.

            Green SC: ‘With MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            60. HOMER.  The Whole Works, translated by G. Chapman.  [1616.]

            Four notes and part of a letter.  Sara Hutchinson’s copy.  Walter Harris Arnold sale 1901.

            61. HORNE TOOKE, J.  Επεα πτερόεντα.  2 vols.  1798, 1805.

            One note.  ? Green Sc.

            61A. HUNTINGTON, Selina, Countess of.  Hymns.  [c. 1790: lacking title-page].

            Sotheby sale 12-13 Dec. 1893; described by W. C. Hazlitt in The Bookworm VII (1894).  With a hymn Divine Consolation signed ‘S.T.C.’; also with notes on Hymns LIX and LXIX, and a few textual emendations.

            62. JAHN, J.  Appendix Hermeneuticae.  2 vols.  Vienna 1813, 1815.

            Five notes.  In the possession of Dr Wright in 1835.

            *62A. KANT, I.  Logik.  [Edition not identified.]

            ‘A thin octavo of two or at least 3 Sheets, under the name of Kant’s Logic – doubtless published by, or from the Notes of, one of his Lecture-pupils.’  Bought by Coleridge in Germany in 1799, probably annotated, and lost by c. 1820.

            63. KLOPSTOCK, F. G.  Der Messias.  [Edition not identified.]

            One note.  Coleridge’s copy, brought in Hamburg Sept. 1798.

            *64. LA CÉPÈDE, B. G. E.  Les Ages de la Nature.  Paris 1830.

            Green SC: ‘Several MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge, some of which are unfortunately cut into by binder.’  Sold in New York by Scribner & Welford 1884.

            *65. LACTANTIUS.  Opera.  [? Basel 1521.]

            Green SC: ‘With the autograph of S. T. Coleridge, and several marginal notes in a neat handwriting.’  The notes may not be Coleridge’s.

            65A. LACUNZA, M.  The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty.  Trans. Edward Irving.  Vol. I (of 2).  1827.

            The original annotated copy of which BM C.43.b.20 is a MS facsimile.

            66. The Law Magazine.  Vol. III.  1830.

            Four notes.  ? Gillman family.

            67. LAW, W.  A serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life.  1772.

            One note.  In the possession of Alexander Macmillan in 1870.

            68. LEIGHTON, R.  The Expository Works.  2 vols.  Edinburgh 1748.

            About 17 notes in pencil.  In the possession of Alfred Elwyn of Philadelphia in 1838.

            69. LEIGHTON, R.  The Genuine Works.  4 vols.  1819.

            About 25 notes.  James Gillman’s copy.

            *70. LIGHTFOOT, J.  The Works.  2 vols.  1684.

            A number of notes.  Henry Crabb Robinson’s copy.  Robinson notes in his diary for 24 June 1836: ‘I rose early and copied some curious marginal notes in Lightfoot’s works, by Coleridge which I shall probably offer to Green and Nelson Coleridge for the intended publication.’  The notes were not published, and I have failed to find the transcript among Robinson’s papers.

            *70A. LOCKE, J.  A Syllabus of Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding.  [possibly] Cambridge 1802.  Pp. 45 (price 1s 6d).

            An interleaved copy in which Coleridge wrote opposite Locke’s words ‘the exact same statement’ found in Descartes.  A reporter of Philosophical Lecture XIII (1819) said that Coleridge showed this volume to his audience.  It seems to be recorded in both the Wordsworth and Green MS library catalogues.

            *71. LUTHER, M.  [Title not definitely identified; possibly] Sämmtliche Schriften.  5 vols (out of 23).  Leipzig 1729-40.

            One note on ‘the blank Leaf at the Beginning of Luther’s Postilla’, and probably others.  Wordsworth LC provides the title cited.  ? Green SC.

            72. LYTTLETON, G.  The History of the Life of King Henry the Second.  4 vols.  1767-71.

            Eight notes.

            73. MACDIARMID, J.  Lives of British Statesmen.  1807.

            Thirteen notes.  Gillman family.

            74. MANDEVILLE, B.  The Fable of the Bees.  1724.

            One note.  Green SC.  Sotheby sale, 23 Oct. 1903.  This copy belonged to Christopher Stone in 1924, and seems to be the copy described by W. G. Boswell-Stone in 1902.  An annotated copy of the 2-volume Edinburgh 1772 edition was described by W. E. Gibbs in 1933, but the one note he prints from that copy is a free variant of the note in the Christopher Stone copy.  The 1772 edition seems to be a MS facsimile, deriving from the unacknowledged version of a note in Table Talk for 1 July 1833 and not from Coleridge’s original MS.

            75. MECKEL, J. F.  System der vergleichenden Anatomie.  6 vols in one.  Halle 1821-33.

            Green SC: ‘With a page of Notes, &c. in the autograph of S. T. Coleridge, including [an epigram of six lines beginning] “O these facts! these facts!”.’

            *76. MENDELSSOHN, M.  Philosophiche Schriften.  2 vols.  Carlsruhe 1780.

            Green SC: ‘With several marginal notes in the autograph of S. T. Coleridge.’  Sold in New York by Scribner & Welford 1884.

            *77. MILTON, J.  Paradise Lost.  1777[?]

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. Notes by S. T Coleridge.’

            78. MILTON, J.  The Poetical Works.  2 vols.  1806.

            Inscription-note in Vol. I addressed to Catherine Clarkson June 1806.  J. B. Clemens sale, Parke-Bernet, Jan. 1945.

            79. MORE, H.  Philosophical Poems.  Cambridge 1647.

            Ten notes.  Southey SC.

            80. NEMESIUS.  De natura hominis.  Lyons 1538.

            Two notes.  Dawson Catalogue 19 Jan. 1963.

            81. NICHOLSON, W.  A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts.  Vol. XXII, XXVI, XXVII, XXX.  1809-12.

            Eleven notes.  Gillman SC.

            82. OWENS, W. F.  Narrative of Voyages.  2 vols.  1833.

            Five notes.

            *83. PARACELSUS, T.  Opera omnia.  3 vols.  Geneva 1658.

            Two notes.  Green SC.  Sotheby sale of J. D. Coleridge’s library, 4 May 1896: ‘Two notes [in Vol. I] relating to the error of the binder in misplacing some leaves, and as to the completeness of this copy.’

            84. PARK, J. J.  The Dogmas of the Constitution.  1832.

            Ten notes.  Henry Nelson Coleridge’s copy.  Offered in a catalogue of James Tregaskis in 1902.

            85. PARNELL, W.  An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics.  Dublin 1807.

            One note.  Thomas Poole’s copy.  In the possession of Alfred Hart, Melbourne, Australia, in 1935.

            86. PARR, S.  A Spital Sermon.  1801.

            One note.  John Matthew Gutch’s copy.

            87. PAULLINI, C. F.  Disquisitio curiosa an mors naturalis sit verminosa.  Frankfurt & Leipzig 1703.

            One note on the title-page.  Green SC.

            *88. PEARSON, J.  Exposition of the Creed.  [Edition not identified.]

            A number of notes.  With Coleridge’s permission, John Sterling transcribed the notes in 1832.

            89. PEREIRA, G.  Antoniani Margarita.  Medina 1554.

            Six notes.  Southey SC.

            90. Quarterly Journal of Foreign and British Medicine and Surgery.  Vol. I.  1818-19.

            Three notes.  Gillman SC.

            91. Quarterly Review.  No. 19, 20.  Oct. 1813, Jan. 1814.

            Twenty-two notes in No. 19, two notes in No. 20.

            92. RABELAIS, F.  The Works.  Translated by Du Chat, Motteux and Ozell.  4 vols.  1807.

            Two notes.  Green SC.

            93. RALEGH, Sir W.  The History of the World.  1614.

            Five notes.  ? In the possession of L. Mathewson in 1897.

            *94. RAPIN-TOYRAS, P. de.  The History of England.  5 vols.  1743-7.

            Gillman SC: ‘With notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            *95. REINHOLD, C. L.  Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens.  Prague & Vienna 1789.

            Green SC: ‘MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge, but cut into in binding.’

            *96. RIMIUS, H.  A Candid Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Moravians.  1753; [and bound in the same volume] A Solemn Call on Count Zinzendorf.  1754.

            Southey SC: ‘S. T. Coleridge’s copy, with many MS. notes in the margins, and three pages entirely filled with his autograph Notes.’

            *97. ROYAL SOCIETY.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.  18 vols.  1792-1809.

            Sotheby sale, 18 Dec. 1908: ‘This interesting copy was formerly in the library of Thos. Poole of Nether-Stowey ... Several of the volumes contain profuse pencil notes, in the margins, in the handwriting of Coleridge dating from 1796 onwards until his leaving the village.’  The date ascribed to the notes is open to question.

            *98. SAMOUELLE, G.  The Entomologist’s Useful Compendium.  1819.

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. note by S. T. Coleridge.’  There was a second copy in Gillman SC and a copy in Green SC, neither shown as annotated.

            99. SANDFORD, D.  Remains.  2 vols.  Edinburgh 1830.

            One note.  Gillman family.

            100. SCAPULA, J.  Lexicon Græco-Latinum.  Lyons 1663.

            One note.  Sotheby sale, 25-26 Oct. 1962: thought to be now in the United States.

            *101. SCHLEGEL, A. W.  Ueber dramatische Kunst und Litteratur.  Vorlesungen.  3 vols in two.  Heidelberg 1809, 1811.

            Green SC: ‘With a loose MS. note by S. T. Coleridge, upon the Eichhornian Hypothesis, placed inside cover.’  Derwent SC: ‘Autograph notes of S. T. Coleridge.’  Thought to have been in Edward Dowden’s possession.  The lot in Green SC included Schlegel’s Poetische Werke.  2 vols.  1811, and three other volumes without title: it is not clear that these were annotated.

            *102. SCOTT, Sir W.  Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border.  2 vols.  Kelso 1802, [together with] vol. III, Edinburgh 1803.

            Derwent SC: ‘Autograph and MS. Notes of S. T. Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge, and Derwent Coleridge.’

            *103. SCOUGAL, H.  The Life of God in the Soul of Man.  Aberdeen 1757.

            Gillman family.  No description of the notes.

            104. SELDEN J.  Table Talk.  1689.

            Five notes.  A copy held by the Westminster Library before Feb. 1814, annotated by Coleridge and the notes transcribed by Henry Francis Cary.

            105. Sendschreiben an seine Hochwürden.  Berlin 1799.

            Three notes.  Green SC.  Offered in a Blackwell catalogue of 1948, where it is described as bound with two other German tracts of 1820, 1829, the titles not cited.  The lot in Green SC gives the title above ‘with several other German tracts’, adding ‘Some of the tracts also have marginalia by S. T. Coleridge.’

            *106. SENNERTUS, D.  Opera.  4 vols in two.  Lyons 1666.

            Green SC: ‘With MS. notes by S. T. Coleridge, but having a portion torn away, and autograph signature on title.’

            *107. SHAKESPEARE, W.  The Plays ... from the correct edition of Isaac Reed.  ‘Printed for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Poultry and Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street.’  12 vols.  1809.

            ‘Sharpe’s edition’ referred to by Coleridge in a notebook of 1819: with a note on Pericles written on the blank page between Pericles and Titis Andronicus – that is, XII [278].

            *108. SHAKESPEARE, W.  [Edition not definitely identified: probably] The Plays ... from the text of the corrected copy left by ... George Steevens.  8 vols.  London 1811.

            ‘Mrs Milne’s copy’, with ‘Memoranda on Pathos, introductory to Romeo and Juliet’ written on ‘the marble leaf of Vol. VIII.’

            *109. SOLGER, C. W. F.  Erwin.  2 vols.  Berlin 1815.

            Green SC: ‘S. T. Coleridge’s copy, with MS. note on fly-leaf in his handwriting.’

            *110. SOUTHEY, R.  Joan of Arc.  Bristol 1796.

            Herbert SC: ‘Apparently with a long autograph note of S. T. Coleridge.’  This is not the heavily annotated copy which once belonged to J. T. Brown and is now in the Berg Collection, New York Public Library; nor does it seem to be the presentation copy from Southey in Green SC.

            *111. SPOTTISWOODE, J.  History of the Church of Scotland.  1666 [? 1668].

            Green SC: ‘Several marginal and other notes in the autograph of S. T. Coleridge.’

            *112. STARKE, M.  Travels on the Continent.  1820.

            Green SC: ‘With MS. note by S. T. Coleridge in reference to the Sclavonic language.’

            *113. SWEDENBORG, E.  The Nature of the Intercourse between the Soul and the Body.  1826.

            Green SC: ‘With autograph note by S. T. Coleridge.’  In the possession of James Speirs in 1903.

            114. SWEDENBORG, E.  The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom.  1816.

            One long note.  Green SC.  In the possession of James Speirs in 1903.  Possibly the copy owned by Gregory in Melbourne, Australia, before 1899.

            *115. TAYLOR, I.  Elements of Thought.  1822.

            Parke-Bernet sale of J. B. Clemens’s library, Jan. 1945: ‘With corrections and annotations believed to be S. T. Coleridge’s.’

            116. TAYLOR, I.  Natural History of Enthusiasm.  1829.

            Three notes.  This copy was lent to Coleridge by an unidentified friend.

            *117. TAYLOR, J.  Holy Living and Holy Dying.  1710.

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            118. TENNYSON, A., Lord.  Poems chiefly Lyrical.  1830.

            Coleridge has written a comment on Tennyson’s presentation inscription to Jane Tonge.  Green SC.

            119. THERESA, ST.  The Works.  1675.

            Six notes.  Southey SC.

            *119A. THOMSON, T.  A System of Chemistry.  4 vols.  1802.

            In a notebook of late 1819 Coleridge refers to ‘my Margl Note to Thomson’s Chemistry, Vol. I, p. 388.’

            *120. TIECK, L.  Phantasus.  Eine Sammlung von Mährchen, Erzählungen, Schauspielen und Novellen.  3 vols.  Berlin 1812-16.

            Green SC: ‘With MS. note by S. T. Coleridge, signed.’

            *121. TRACTS: Caroline.  A volume of 6 tracts relating to Charles I.  1748-56.  8°.  Two titles are identified: (a) M. Towgood.  An Essay towards attaining a true Idea of the Character and Reign of Charles the First, and the Causes of the Civil War.  1748; (b) Address to the Commons.  1756.

            Gillman SC: ‘With the autograph of W. Hone, and Index in MS. by Mr. Coleridge.’

            122. TRACTS: Civil War.  A volume of 39 tracts ‘concerning the Civil Wars’.  1614-51.  4°.  Four titles are identified: (a) England’s Dust and Ashes Raked up.  1648; (b) [C. Dallison], The Royalist’s Defence.  1648; (c) The Copie of Three Petitions.  1647; (d) VIII Problems Propounded to the Cavaliers.  1646.

            Two notes in (a), four in (b), and two notes on the back fly-leaves of the volume.

            123. TRACTS: Cromwellian.  A volume of 26 tracts ‘relating to the time of Cromwell’.  1649-59.  4°.  Seven titles are identified: (a) [W. Steele], Mr Recorder’s Speech.  1653; (b) O. Cromwell, Speeches of 4 and 12 Sept 1654.  1654; (c) H. Vane, A Healing Question.  1660; (d) J. H[all], An Humble Motion.  1649; (e) [R. Chambre?], Some Animadversions. 1659; (f) T. Whitfield, A Discourse of Conscience.  1649; (g) W. Sedgwick, Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance.  1648.

            Three notes in (d), two notes in (f) and (g), one note in each of (a), (b), (c), (e), and one note on a back fly-leaf of the volume.  (e), with one note in Coleridge’s hand coinciding with E. H. Coleridge’s transcript, is now in the British Museum (C.134.b.15), but none of the other annotated tracts from this volume is there.

            124. TRACTS: Medical.  A volume containing an unspecified number of ‘Medical Treatises’.  1833 &c.  8°.  Two titles are identified: (a) D. Turner, A Brief and Distinct Account of the Mineral Waters of Piedmont.  1733; (b) J. Soame, Hampstead-Wells.  1734.

            One note on a front fly-leaf of the volume, not referring directly to either of the titles identified.

            *125. TRACTS.  Puritan.  A volume of 24 tracts relating to the Puritans.  1630-79.  4°.  Three titles are identified: (a) G. Geree, The Character of an Old English Puritane.  1646; (b) The Lyer Laid Open.  1648; (c) Newes from Turkie.  1648.

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. Notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            126. TURNER, C. T. (formerly Charles TENNYSON).  Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces.  Cambridge 1830.

            Twenty notes.  The original was in the Tennyson family in 1880.  Three MS facsimiles in copies of the same edition are recorded: in the BM, at Duke University, and in private possession in New York.

            *127. WEISHAUPT, A.  Pythagoras.  Vol. I [all pbd].  Frankfurt 1795.

            Green SC: see *128 below.

            *128. WEISHAUPT, A.  Über den Kantischen Anschauung und Erscheinungen.  Nürnberg 1788.

            Green SC (with Pythagoras *127 above): ‘With MS. notes by S. T. Coleridge on the margins, but a portion of some cut away in binding.’  The same lot in Green SC included 7 other volumes of Weishaupt, the titles not cited: it is not clear whether these were also annotated by Coleridge.

            *129. WELLS, C. W.  Two Essays: one upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the other on Dew.  1818.

            Gillman SC: ‘With MS. notes by S. T. Coleridge.’

            130. WHEELER, B.  Theological Lectures.  Vol. I [all pbd].  Oxford 1819. 

            One note.  Henry Francis Cary’s copy.

            131. WILSON, W.  Memoirs of the Life and Time of Daniel Defoe.  3 vols.  1830.

            One note, printed in 1851 without evidence of ownership.

            *132. WRANGHAM, F.  Scraps [including a translation of Milton’s Second Defence of the People of England].  [priv. ptd in 50 copies] 1816.

            Green SC: ‘Presentation copy from the author, with several marginal notes in S. T. Coleridge’s autograph.’

            133. Xenophon’s Memoirs of Socrates.  Trans. by Sarah Fielding.  1767.

            One note.  In the possession of ‘H.J.C.’ in 1889.

            *134. YOUNG, T.  A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts.  2 vols.  1807.

            Green SC: ‘With autograph Note by S. T. Coleridge, but a portion cut away by the binder.’

            *135. [An unidentified theological book, possibly on the subject of Miracles.]

            This book belonged to the Stowey Book Society.  Coleridge annotated it before Sept. 1807 thinking that it belonged to Thomas Poole.  For his letter of explanation to Mary Cruikshank see Collected Letters (ed. E. L. Griggs) 1956, 1959, III, 32.