The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Gustave Dore
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Gustave Dore. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1876. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Gustave Dore (illustrator). Fair to Good condition for its age. No dust jacket. Red-brown cloth boards blocked with gold lettering and albatross decoration by Gustave Doré. 12 pp. with title-vignette and 39 fine wood-engraved plates with tissue-guards. All the plates were engraved by notable French engravers after the fantastic nautical and Arctic designs by the famous French artist Gustave Doré. Boards are well-rubbed; barely attached; horizontal bubbling of cloth covering; a 3" piece of spine cover is missing at top, a 1" piece at foot; gilt clear. All pages present w/tissue guards. Large amount of rubbing to spine, frayed at both ends with loss of cloth at edges of board. Title page loose but present.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Moe's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87629
- Title
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Author
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Gustave Dore
- Illustrator
- Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1876
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
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