Folio Archives 265: Coleridge Among the Lakes and Mountains by Roger Hudson 1991

Coleridge Among the Lakes and Mountains. From His Notebooks, Letters and Poems 1784 to 1804. Selected and edited by Roger Hudson 1991

Between 1794 and 1804 Samuel Coleridge undertook a number of walking tours in Germany, the West of England, the Lake District and Scotland. These tours are immortalised in the pages of this book with extracts from his diaries, letters to friends and family and poems he wrote to commemorate some sections of his tours.

The Scottish tour was particularly long and arduous taking him on a circuit from his home in the Lake District, up the West coast, as far North as Inverness, then back down to Edinburgh. This journey was partly an attempt to remove his addiction to opium.

The entries have been carefully curated and edited by Roger Hudson and demonstrate Coleridge’s ability to describe scenery beautifully in words, while the very generous 68 colour and monochrome illustration reproducing contemporary paintings, prints portray the same scenes visually. Each tour has a map detailing the route.

This 256 page book was the presentation volume for 1992 (FS members who agreed to purchase four books in advance were given a presentation book as a gift). The book is bound in cloth blocked with a wrap-around colour painting of Lake Windermere by Francis Nicholson done in 1805. The endpapers are pale green as is the 25.4x17.9cm. slipcase.















































































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Beautiful, thank you

>1 wcarter: What gorgeous illustrations, thanks for archiving this charming volume here Warwick. Reminds me I've yet to properly read my 1963 Folio Society volume 'Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' which I collected along with the others of that first 'Folio Poets' series some years ago, a beautiful set of small volumes, bound in quarter leather over cloth boards, all printed letterpress of course :)

>3 cronshaw: that first 'Folio Poets' series some years ago, a beautiful set of small volumes, bound in quarter leather over cloth boards, all printed letterpress.

Indeed. A dainty set. The "giants" of more recent years look vaguely ridiculous stood next to them. Small is beautiful, as my wife frequently reminds me.