Egerton MS 2825-2826

TREATISE ON LOGIC, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In sixteen chapters, the first two dealing with the history of logic and the philosophy of education, while the rest treat at great length of the metaphysics of reasoning. The treatise is not complete, though it breaks off at the end of a chapter. Two volumes. Written by an amanuensis (probably - Stutfield, jun., see Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, by Thomas Allsop, 1864, p. 204). A table of contents, headed " Coleridge's Logic," is prefixed to vol. i., in the hand of Joseph Henry Green, Coleridge's disciple and literary executor. A few corrections in the course of the work are probably also in Green's hand (e.g. vol. ii., ff. 174, 197). Allusions to great projected philosophical works are frequent in Coleridge's correspondence, and this is probably the largest extant portion which was actually completed in a form fit for publication. A copy of a letter from Coleridge (undated and without address, but written about 1825) is inserted at the end of this treatise (vol. ii. f. 462), referring to three works which he then had in hand, of which this is probably the first, described as " finished and transcribed for the press." See also Notes and Queries, 1st ser., vols. viii. p. 43, ix. pp. 496, 543; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by J. Dykes Campbell, 1894, p. 251 note; Letters of S. T. Coleridge, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, 1895, vol. ii. p. 753 note. Paper; ff. 90, 467. Belonged successively to J. H. Green, E. Riggall, Messrs. Macmillan and Bowes, and Charles A. Ward. The last-named has written annotations and criticisms in pencil on the blank sides of many of the leaves. Quarto.