Rime o fthe Ancient Mariner: Engravings by Paul McPharlin
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Box, no jacket
- Seller
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Sea Cliff, New York, United States
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About This Item
This stunning presentation of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is marked with unusual and evocative engravings by artist Paul McPharlin. The art is imaginative blue, while the text is two-color--black and red. This limited edition (one of 1450 copies printed) is so unusual and so little known. The cream linen boards are darkened on the spine edge the the spine also darkened from light exposure, but the impressed art on the cover is fine. The interior is unmarked, clean and bright. the box is faded on edges and somewhat worn, with a tear on 1/4th of the bottom but otherwise good.
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
- Carole Berglie (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10092
- Title
- Rime o fthe Ancient Mariner
- Author
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Illustrator
- Paul McPharlin
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, bound, with box
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Box, no jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First such
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Pauper Press
- Place of Publication
- Mt Vernon NY
- Date Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 62
- Size
- 6 x 8 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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