Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 15
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
Description:
Corrections for the first volume. and Table of contents.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834., Davy, Humphry,, Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855., and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.