1869 1st Ed Henry Crabb Robinson Diary 3 Vol Set Blake Wordsworth Antiquarian UK For Sale

Complete three-volume first-edition set of Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F.S.A., selected and edited by Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. Published in London by Macmillan and Co. in 1869.Robinson was a lawyer, journalist, European correspondent for The Times and an important eyewitness to the Romantic literary world. His diaries preserve firsthand encounters and conversations involving William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles and Mary Lamb, Goethe, Schiller and other major nineteenth-century figures. His records of Blake’s later life remain particularly valuable to literary scholars.Matching Volumes I–III in period half-leather bindings with burgundy cloth boards, gilt spine lettering and decorative marbled endpapers. Includes the original printed errata slip and a publisher-printed facsimile of Robinson’s handwriting at age 91. Two previous-owner bookplates are present.CONDITION: Complete three-volume set, not collated page by page. Interiors appear generally clean and readable with expected age toning. Bindings are in poor/distressed condition with extensive leather rubbing, peeling and loss; worn corners; weakened or split joints; loose/separating boards; and spine-end wear. Offered as an antiquarian binding/restoration copy. Please examine every photograph carefully. The handwritten page is a printed facsimile, not an original signed letter.A scarce 1869 first-edition set for collectors of William Blake, Wordsworth, Romantic literature, Victorian books and literary history.