The Romantic poet Robert Southey's first loan at the Bristol Library Society: on 22 Oct 1793, Southey checked out the first volume of William Enfield's History of Philosophy from the Earliest Periods (1791). Bristol Libraries C18th Libraries Online

Robert Southey borrowed Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman on 18 December 1793.

Samuel Coleridge's first loan at the Bristol Library Society on 2 March 1795: volume three of "Poetical Tracts", a composite volume bound by the library which included Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's poems on slavery, among others poems.

Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey sometimes borrowed books together at the Bristol Library Society in the 1790s. On 20 April 1795, they borrowed volumes one and two of Gilbert Burnet's History of His Own Times.

On 6 April 1795, Robert Southey signed for himself and for William Coleridge when he checked out Robert Burn's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1787) and the first volume of William Robertson's History of the Reign of Charles V (1769).

Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey borrowed books together at the Bristol Library Society. On 1 June 1795, they checked out vols. 1&2 of the Prussian Biblical scholar John David Michaelis's Introduction to the New Testament, translated from German into English by Herbert Marsh.

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Many congratulations to team member Max Skjönsberg for a terrific review of his monograph!

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