8vo. [2], 64pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's mauve buckram, paper lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities sunned, ink spotting to boards, slight split to upper joint, loss to head of spine. Text-block working loose of binding, without FFEP, head of title-page trimmed to removed ink inscription, lightly foxed.

A provincially published memoir of poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) by fellow poet and essayist, David Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849), son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The work first appeared in 1832 under the title The life of Andrew Marvell, the celebrated patriot: with extracts and selections from his prose and poetical works, with Coleridge writing under the pseudonym of John Dove.