THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Signed limited edition. Publisher commissioned quarter vellum by Zaehnsdorf,over handmade seaweed paper by Philip H. Rowson, with titles in gilt to the spine, in slipcase. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge and bottom edge. Illustrated throughout with ten tipped in colour plates by Errol Le Cain. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 110 copies (of which 101 to 110 were not for sale), this example is numbered 62 and signed by the illustrator Errol Le Cain, calligrapher David A. Howells and paper maker Philip H. Rowson in black ink on the limitation page. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's birth. An exquisite production.