A Hebrew Dirge, Thomas Boosey, London, 1817; and a verse manuscript of the final part of 'The Garden of Boccaccio'

Item author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1771-1834)
Item date: 1817
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £11,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2009
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

A copy of the first edition of Coleridge's verse translation of his friend Hyman Hurwitz's Kinat Yeshurun', one of only five copies known in the UK. The MS verses, containing the last 17 lines of 'The Garden of Boccaccio' , apparently predate the published version and differ from it in several ways.

Item Provenance
C. R. Johnson Rare Book Collections (A Hebrew Dirge); Ken Spelman Rare Books