Consolatio: or, Comfort for the Afflicted by Kennaway, Rev. C. E - 1866

London: Francis and John Rivington, 1846. xv, [1], 216pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, ink inscription to half-title: 'Hon: Mr. Justice Coleridge / with the authors / best regards / June. 1846.' The first edition of Church of England clergyman Charles Edward Kennaway's (1800-1875) only published collection of verse, predominantly devotional in nature, though containing a sequence of sonnets on a martial theme; 'Waterloo', 'Waterloo - War', Waterloo - To the Duke of Wellington', and Waterloo - The Battle Field'. This copy inscribed to John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), judge, sometime editor of the Quarterly Review, nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. . First edition. 8vo.