Rime of the Ancient Mariner: With ten engravings on copper by David Jones.
by COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
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About This Item
JONES, David, [illustrator]. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. FANFARE PRESS. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With ten engravings on copper by David Jones. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press, 1929.
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JONES, David, [illustrator]. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With ten engravings on copper by David Jones. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press, 1929.
First edition illustrated by David Jones. One of 400 numbered copies, this being number 384 out of a total of 470. Quarto (12 1/2 x 10 inches; 319 x 255 mm). [x], 37, [1, colophon] pp. With ten copper engravings by Jones, eight of which are full-page.
Publisher's quarter white buckram over blue-green paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt . Very light darkening and foxing to buckram. A few tiny chips to board edges. Internally very clean. Overall a very good and very clean copy.
HBS 68913.
$2,250.
Synopsis
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834), one of the most imaginative poets of the English Romantic Movement, was also its most influential thinker and philosopher. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written early in his life, during a period of intense and impassioned creativity, and, like all his best work, has a visionary quality with strong religious and metaphysical overtones. MERVYN PEAKE (1911-1968) was born in China but moved to England at the age of eleven and studied at Eltham College, Kent, and at the Royal Academy Schools. His striking originality as an artist brought him renown as an illustrator of books such as Alice in Wonderland, The Hunting of the Snark and Treasure Island . He also wrote poetry and plays, but is best remembered as a writer for his Gormenghast trilogy of novels , Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone , an extravagant gothic fantasy that has become a modern classic.
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- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68913
- Title
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Author
- COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
- Illustrator
- JONES, David; FANFARE PRESS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press
- Place of Publication
- Bristol
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books|Fine Printing
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