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An inn at Bristol: people having breakfast before taking the stage coach. Stipple print after E.V. Rippingille, 1824.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge aged 42, seated on a chair, a book in his left hand; gothic window in the background. Mezzotint by S. Cousins, 1854, after W. Allston, 1814.

Six poets: Robert Montgomery, John Keats, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

The Gillmans of Highgate : with letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge. &c., illustrated with views and portraits, being a chapter from the History of the Gillman family / by Alexander W. Gillman.

Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

Applied psychoanalysis monograph series

His brother's keeper : a psychobiography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Stephen M. Weissman.

The poet Coleridge recalls his childhood / T.E.C., Jr.

The Oxford DNB mentions "Rippingille's best-known work, "The stage coach breakfast (RA, 1824; Clevedon Court, Somerset). It records, with deliberate nostalgia, Bristol's remarkable literary associations a quarter-century earlier, including portraits of Coleridge, Lamb, Southey, and Wordsworth, of Elton and his family, and of others including John Gibbons, Rippingille's patron, and of Rippingille himself ironically being offered the bill." The ODNB also records John Clare's statement that Sir Thomas Lawrence "paid Rip[pingille] several fine compliments about his picture of the breakfast at an Inn and told him of his faults in a free undisguised manner but with great kindness ... told him that the Royal Family ... took more notice of his picture than all the rest but Rip would not own it for he affects a false appearance of such matters"
The man receiving the bill is seated on the left of the central table, who is having his boots put on by a boy: he is presumably Rippingille. On his left around the table sits William Wordsworth. The other people named in the ODNB are not so easy to identify. The Wellcome Library has a key to the identities of the people portrayed, researched by Mr Patrick Cartwright in 2006 and sent to the Wellcome Library in 2008

1 print : stipple with line etching and possibly aquatint, with watercolour ; image 37.9 x 58.3 cm

Transformation and tradition in the sciences

Joseph Priestley, eighteenth-century British Neoplatonism, and S.T. Coleridge / Robert Schofield.

A lawyer sticking knives into a snake: the devil looks on. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.

94 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves, 8 pages ; (12mo)

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life / By S.T. Coleridge. Edited by Seth B. Watson.

An episode in The devil's walk by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, 1799

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.5 x 19.8 cm

An episode in The devil's walk by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, 1799. The apothecary reminds the devil of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, Death on a pale horse as described in the Book of Revelation. "The lank apothecary sits high on his horse, inhaling snuff deeply from a pill box and looking utterly disreputable. He carries a tubular box, possibly for a stethoscope. His horse is a hack, starved, weak, and sickly, pitted with sores, barely able to carry its master. Half-concealed behind him on the saddle is a dead baby (a reference to back-street abortion?) doubtless destined for dissection, and a copy of The Lancet, whose title reinforces this idea. ... A moribund dog convulses in the gutter. In the background a body is borne away on a stretcher; men muffle their faces from the pestilential atmosphere; a coffin-bearer follows. In the midst of this desolation, a quizzical face smirks over the nag's mane: the Devil, sniffing rosemary, approving all he sees. The apothecary holds a paper that reads Accoucheur to the Queen": a reference to Princess Charlotte, whose shocking death in childbirth in 1817 had been followed by the suicide of her doctor. ... " (Richardson, loc. cit.)

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.5 x 20.4 cm

An apothecary (medical practitioner) riding on a white horse. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.

Encyclopædia metropolitana.

A manual of botany : being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology and classification of plants / by John Hutton Balfour.

Encyclopaedia metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings / Edited by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose.

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Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life / By S.T. Coleridge. Edited by Seth B. Watson.

A lawyer sticking knives into a snake: the devil looks on. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.

An apothecary (medical practitioner) riding on a white horse. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.

A manual of botany : being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology and classification of plants / by John Hutton Balfour.

Encyclopaedia metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings / Edited by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life / By S.T. Coleridge. Edited by Seth B. Watson.

A lawyer sticking knives into a snake: the devil looks on. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.

An apothecary (medical practitioner) riding on a white horse. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.

A manual of botany : being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology and classification of plants / by John Hutton Balfour.

Encyclopaedia metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings / Edited by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose.

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