The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
August 2, 2008 11:02 pm Antiquarian
This AUCTION Is For The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It Is Greatly Illustrated By Gustave Dore
Published 1877 By Harper & Brothers 
It’s A Beautiful Interpretation Of Coleridge’s Longest Single Poem And The Dore Plates Are Exquisite And Large
The Book Is Elephant Folio At 17-1/2 High And 14″ Wide
All Original ln Dark Brown Full Leather Binding,Gilt Lettering At The Front Board, Full Gilt Page Edges, Marbled Pastedowns And Endpapers
The Text Is In 8 Pages Illustrated By 39 Full Page Plates On Heavy Paper Guarded By Protective Onion Skin + Large Oval To The Title Page + Headpiece To Start The First Part + Small Oval To End The Text
The Contents Is Complete And Mildly Agetoned,The Plates Are Exquisite, Some Scattered Foxing About Not Affecting The Images,Some Wrinkled And A Bit Tattered Onion Skin, Still Tightly Bound,Couple Of Faint Dampstain Marks At The Beginning Not Disturbing The Text Or Images,Tattered At The Marbled Pastedowns And Endpapers
Leather Boards Detached And Present,Rubbed And Scuffed,Some Blemishes/Some Chipping,The Backstrip Is Missing,Rippling At The Rear Board
No Previous Owner Markings, No Writing In Book And Not Ex-Library
The Book Is A Beautful Interpretaion Of Coleridge’s Longest Single Poem Illustrated With Exquisite Plates By Gustave Dore
Stumble it!
December 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
There is a version of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” that includes the etext, audio narration and even illustrations – which might make it helpful for those that are interested in the story but would like to also listen to it and watch (in a sense):
http://www.adamsmithacademy.org/etext/TheRimeoftheAncientMariner.html