Psychic Leaf - Coolidge - Antique Books

[Picture 1.~Picture 3. Blue-green Moroccan goatskin embossed bronzing hardcover] [Figure 4. [Psychic Poetry Leaf] bound by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf. The family crest of Robert T. Hamilton Bruce (1846~1899) can be seen on the book cover. 】 [Fig. 5. Delicate book head decorative stitching made by Wilhelm Zeinsdorf. 】 [Fig. 6. Bronzing imprint of Zeinsdorf workshop. 】 [Figure 7. The title page of the book "Sibylline Leaves". 】 [Figure 8. The beginning of the poem [Ode to the Ancient Zhouzi] in [Sibylline Leaves]. 】 [Figure 9. Coolidge drawn by Washington Allston (Washington Allston, 1779 ~1843), an American friend, poet and painter, at the age of 42. 】 Author: ST Coleridge (1772~1834) Title: [Sibylline Leaves] (Sibylline Leaves), 308 pages (157~160 / 279~280 pages missing). Signed: London: Rest Fenner, 1817. Technique: Movable type printing. Hardcover in embossed gilt-embossed turquoise moroccan goatskin, gilded margins on three sides, gilded olive-green thistle leather lining, gilded Bound by Zaehnsdorf lettering on lower front title page. Date: 1817. Dimensions: 8K (23 x 15 cm) (BO 58). Coolidge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772~1834) was a famous British poet, philosopher and critic. As a poet, Coolidge had a great appreciation for contemporary Romantic poets such as Wordsworth (William Wordsworth, 1770~1850), Byron (L. Byron, 1788~1824), Keats (J. Keats, 1795~1821) and Shelley (PB Shelley, 1792~1822) and others had great influence. As a philosopher and theologian, he tried to reconcile reason and religion, and became an important advocate of Anglo-American idealism and the Broad Church Movement in the nineteenth century His most famous poem [The Rime of the Ancient Mariner] (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798) is considered to be the beginning of English Romantic literature. This poem tells about a sailor who was blown by a storm to the Antarctic waters, and then left the frozen seas under the guidance of an albatross. After that, the sailors shot the albatross to death, and the people on board encountered all kinds of bad luck. This story is inspired by James Cook's (James Cook, 1728~1779) second voyage of exploration (1772~1775). This [Sibylline Leaves] (Sibylline Leaves) collects his best poems from 1793 to 1817, some of which have been published earlier, but there are still 8 works that have not been published before in this collection of poems and A poem by his American friend, poet and painter Washington Allston (1779~1843). In 1798, he and Wordsworth published "Lyrical Ballads" (Lyrical Ballads), "The Song of the Ancient Boatman" was published for the first time, but Coolidge continued to revise it until "Psychic Poetry Leaves" In the collection of poems, [Ode to the Ancient Zhouzi] is the final draft, which is also the precious part of this collection of poems. The binding of this book comes from the binding workshop of Zaehnsdorf. This is a binding workshop founded by Joseph Zaehnsdor (Jospeh Zaehnsdor, 1816~1886) in London around 1842. It has been run by the family until 1947, producing many outstanding binding works. Joseph originally worked and studied in the binding workshops in Stuttgart and Vienna, and came to London in 1837, where he was appreciated by James Mackenzie, the royal binder at the time, and studied under him. In the 1860s, Zainsdorf's workshop became one of London's finest bookbinding workshops. In 1886, Zaehnsdorf passed away, and his son William (Joseph William Zaehnsdorf) took over the business. At the same time, he opened a course and exhibition space for binding. At the turn of the century, he became King Edward VII (1814~1910) and George V. (1865~1936) Queen's bookbinder. In the 1920s, William retired, and the workshop was handed over to his son Ernest. After World War II, this well-known workshop was sold and changed hands several times. In 1988, another well-known London binding workshop, Sangorski & Sutcliffe ) takes over. According to the manuscript attached to the book, the binding of this book was made by William Zeinsdorf in 1894 for Robert T. Hamilton Bruce (Robert T. Hamilton Bruce, 1846~1899), a businessman in Glasgow, Scotland. The merchant's initials, RTB, appear throughout the binding. William Zeinsdorf used the geometric stripes favored by the sixteenth-century bibliophile Jean Grolier (Jean Grolier, 1479~1565) to form the pattern of the book cover before and after the development, and the merchant's home is pressed in the center emblem. The horse head and the inscription (Ride thro / Be Crew / By it we live) symbolize the spirit of the businessman, and the thistle pattern just shows his Scottish origin (thistle is the representative flower of Scotland). This Bruce is also an art collector. His Barbizon and Hague School works are very rich, and they are still collected today in his former residence in Dornoch, which has become an art museum. *If you have any details, please send a message to contact the designer *The main products in this design hall are western antiques, old jewelry and home decorations, and old European original print books. 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