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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Allen Lane, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. No publisher stated but privately printed for Richard and Allen Lane 1945. Limited edition, being one of 700 unnumbered copies, 8vo (227 x 140mm.) Text in red and black, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant. Publisher's blue niger morocco with gilt medallion to upper cover, t.e.g. spine rubbed, a few small scuffs to lower cover. Internally exceptional. Clean and bright with fresh lithos and no ownership inscriptions or spotting. Loosely inserted is a signed Christmas card from publisher Allen Lane Signed by Author
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
- finecopy ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110302
- Title
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
- Author
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, 1945
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