COTTLE

Joseph . b. 1770; bookseller at Bristol 1791–99; published several of the works of the Lake poets Cole ridge, Southey and Words worth; author of Malvern Hills 1798, 4 ed. 1829; Alfred, an epic poem 1800, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1804; John the Baptist, a poem 1801; The fall of Cambria, a poem 2 vols. 1808, 2 ed. 1811; Early recollections chiefly relating to Samuel Taylor Cole ridge 2 vols. 1837–39, 2 ed. 1847. d. Fairfield house, Knowle near Bristol 7 June 1853. Pen and ink sketches , 2 ed. (1847) 165–74; J. Cottle’s Early recollections (1837), portrait .