COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Watchman . Numbers I-X [All issued]. Bristol: "Published by the Author... And sold by the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country" (vol. I); "Published by the Author... and by Parsons, Paternoster-Row, London" (vols. II-X), 1 March-13 May 1796.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Watchman . Numbers I-X [All issued]. Bristol: "Published by the Author... And sold by the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country" (vol. I); "Published by the Author... and by Parsons, Paternoster-Row, London" (vols. II-X), 1 March-13 May 1796. 10 numbers bound in one volume, 8° (201 x 126 mm). Ornamental tail-pieces. (Pale browning.) 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards (joints cracked). Provenance : C.H. Radford (blindstamp on front flyleaf). FIRST EDITION OF COLERIDGE'S SCARCE POLITICAL JOURNAL . Coleridge began a tour of the north of England in January 1796, hoping to raise funds for a political journal. "He visited Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, and other towns, and came back with a list of nearly a thousand names. A prospectus was issued of the 'Watchman,' price fourpence, which was to appear on 1 March, and on every eighth day (in order to avoid the tax payable on weekly newspapers), and to contain original matter, reviews, and full reports of parliamentary speeches" ( DNB ). Coleridge boldly placed The Watchman 's intention at the head of each number: "THAT ALL MAY KNOW THE TRUTH; AND THAT THE TRUTH MAY MAKE US FREE!" He writes in number one of his intentions: "I declare my intention of relating facts simply and nakedly, without epithets or comments; and if at any time the opposition and ministerial prints differ from each other in detail of events, faithfully to state such difference. It would be absurd to promise an equal neutrality in the political Essays. My bias, however, is in favor of principles, not men" (p.5). Public reception was not overwhelming, causing Coleridge to later complain that the first number had been outdated and that his use of a censorable line from Isaiah at the head of his "Essay on Fasts" in part two cost him five hundred subscribers: "Wherefore my Bowels shall sound like an Harp." The Watchman was finally cancelled after ten numbers, with Coleridge's simple statement that it did "not pay for expenses." Ashley I, p.196; Tinker 677; Wise Coleridge 7. A FINE COPY IN UNSOPHISTICATED CONDITION .
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Watchman . Numbers I-X [All issued]. Bristol: "Published by the Author... And sold by the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country" (vol. I); "Published by the Author... and by Parsons, Paternoster-Row, London" (vols. II-X), 1 March-13 May 1796.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Watchman . Numbers I-X [All issued]. Bristol: "Published by the Author... And sold by the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country" (vol. I); "Published by the Author... and by Parsons, Paternoster-Row, London" (vols. II-X), 1 March-13 May 1796. 10 numbers bound in one volume, 8° (201 x 126 mm). Ornamental tail-pieces. (Pale browning.) 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards (joints cracked). Provenance : C.H. Radford (blindstamp on front flyleaf). FIRST EDITION OF COLERIDGE'S SCARCE POLITICAL JOURNAL . Coleridge began a tour of the north of England in January 1796, hoping to raise funds for a political journal. "He visited Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, and other towns, and came back with a list of nearly a thousand names. A prospectus was issued of the 'Watchman,' price fourpence, which was to appear on 1 March, and on every eighth day (in order to avoid the tax payable on weekly newspapers), and to contain original matter, reviews, and full reports of parliamentary speeches" ( DNB ). Coleridge boldly placed The Watchman 's intention at the head of each number: "THAT ALL MAY KNOW THE TRUTH; AND THAT THE TRUTH MAY MAKE US FREE!" He writes in number one of his intentions: "I declare my intention of relating facts simply and nakedly, without epithets or comments; and if at any time the opposition and ministerial prints differ from each other in detail of events, faithfully to state such difference. It would be absurd to promise an equal neutrality in the political Essays. My bias, however, is in favor of principles, not men" (p.5). Public reception was not overwhelming, causing Coleridge to later complain that the first number had been outdated and that his use of a censorable line from Isaiah at the head of his "Essay on Fasts" in part two cost him five hundred subscribers: "Wherefore my Bowels shall sound like an Harp." The Watchman was finally cancelled after ten numbers, with Coleridge's simple statement that it did "not pay for expenses." Ashley I, p.196; Tinker 677; Wise Coleridge 7. A FINE COPY IN UNSOPHISTICATED CONDITION .
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