8vo. vi, 359pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled dark green morocco, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed and marked, lower joint starting, some loss to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, frontispiece browned, else internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscriptions to head of half-title: 'Derwent Coleridge / from the Author'. Armorial bookplate of Derwent Coleridge to REF.

A Coleridge family copy of an early edition of the collected poems of Church of England clergyman John Moultrie (1799-1874). The volume includes verse dedicated to friends among whom were Thomas Arnold, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, and Derwent Coleridge. Coleridge wrote a memoir of Moultrie which was printed in the complete edition of his poems in 1876.

Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883), writer, master of Helleston grammar school, Cornwall, second son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).