***RARE 1ST U.S. EDITION & IN ORIGINAL BOARDS***

Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College by Henry Nelson Coleridge, Late Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Part I. Containing General Introduction and discussion on Homer (Iliad & Odyssey).

NOTE: There was never a Part II, complete with this volume.

Published in 1831 by Carey and Lea in Philadelphia, this is a rare first U.S. edition and early—nearly 200-year-old—Philadelphia publication remarkably in its original linen backing over cloth. Octavo. 7.25” x 4.25”. 239 pages.

Condition: FAIR

Henry Nelson Coleridge (25 October 1798 – 26 January 1843) was an editor of the works of his uncle Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His father was Colonel James Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary. He was born on 25 October 1798. He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow.

In 1825, he accompanied his uncle, William Hart Coleridge, the bishop of Barbados, to the West Indies, and described his excursion in a bright and lively little book, Six Months in the West Indies in 1825, published anonymously in the following year. He wrote therein volubly on emancipation of slaves, which he enumerated at 800,000, and concluded with this declaration of love and devotion upon his return. He published in 1830 an introduction to Homer (this book) the first of a contemplated series on the Greek poets, which was not continued further.

Condition: FAIR

Spine lean, firm hinges and joints. Heavily soiled and rubbed original binding (quite scarce as books were often rebound in leather from this era). Bumped corners, soiled and darkened edges. Spine label still intact with a little edge wear. Significant internal foxing (as was almost always the case for early American books!) particularly to the endpapers. Former owner name in faded antique ink on title page. Internal areas of spoiling, creases, bent corners, worming to section of top edge, dampened pages, age toned pages.

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