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LE CAIN, Errol (illustrator): COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. 

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

[Signed limited edition (No.27 of 110 copies) Arcadia Press, 1972.   [59012] Folio (14 x 10 inches). Half vellum gilt with seaweed paper boards byZaehnsdorf, matching slip-case. Pp. 56, hand-printed by Wood Westworth & Co. in sage-green and black from original calligraphy by David Howells on deckle-edged hand-made seaweed paper by Wookey Hole Mill,  with 10 magnificent colour plates by Le Cain, printed as proofs and tipped-in by hand.   
An extraordinary production, signed by the illustrator, the calligrapher and paper-maker (Philip H.Rowson), this having been the personal copy of the
printer, John Ball of Wood Westworth & Co.

Price: £2,250.00


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