Lot 407
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The British Neptune; or, Naval, Military, and Fashionable Advertiser, Number 466, 2pp., folded sheet, company of stationers stamp, ANNOTATED BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, the upper margin further inscribed by an unknown hand, 'With Mr Valpy's Compts.', folio, Sunday, September 15, 1811 This issue of the British Neptune carries a review of The Curse of Kehama, by Robert Southey. Verso there is an article titled 'Further Advances on the Price of Bread' to which Coleridge has provided a critical response, noting after his own calculations, 'I do not imagine how the Baker could have less profit than he has, when we consider in how small a way Bakers trade in general, & how many there are & must be for the convenience of the Customers as well as the small capital required to set up.'
