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COLERIDGE FAMILY COPY

MASON, William. Poems.

Glasgow. Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1777.
12mo. In two volumes. [4],139, [1]; 129pp, [3]. Nineteenth century gilt-ruled calf. A trifle rubbed, spines sunned. Inked ownership inscriptions of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaves.
The second Foulis edition of the collected poems of William Mason (1725- 1797) including his first widely praised composition, 'Musaeus: a Monody to the Memory of Mr Pope' (1774).

Provenance: John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, judge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.
ESTC T96178.
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 33720