1910 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts

Description

Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated

The first edition of this popular poem by influential English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to be illustrated by Willy Pogany.

In decorative full cloth binding, a prize binding for the Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls, with a school crest in gilt to the rear board. 

With 20 striking tipped in colour plates by prolific Hungarian illustrator William Pogany, with an additional abundance of colour and monochrome in text decorations throughout. Collated, complete. 

Originally published in 1798 in Coleridge's 'Lyrical Ballads', the poem recounts the experience of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage, stopping a man on his way to a wedding ceremony to tell his story.