Bristol bookseller and poet; he published the Lyrical Ballads, several heroic poems that attracted Byron's derision, and Early Recollections, chiefly relating to the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 vols (1837).

CORRESPONDENCE OF Joseph Cottle:

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, [November] 1795 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 22 September 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 11 August 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 20 April 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 17 October 1814 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle, 3 November 1819 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle, [late 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle, [26 May? 1820] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 16 November 1837 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)