Ye Rime of Ye Ancient Mariner courtesy of Boice Lydell

Pictures courtesy of the Roycroft Historian Boice Lydell.

Ye Rime of Ye Ancient Mariner

by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 1899

#67 of 910 Binding by John Grabau, Derome Bindery

This book measures 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" and has 140 pages. The text body is set in Caslon Old Style. The majority of these books were bound in decorated or blind stamped suede with 910 copies printed in three colors on handmade watermaked paper. The initials and woodcuts were designed by W. W. Denslow.  Additionally, there were forty copies printed on Japan Vellum and bound in either 3/4 or full Levant that were specially illumined. The suede bound edition had several cover variants. McKenna states that at least 2 copies were known to be bound in full Levant. I know there were more than that as I have three full Levant editions displayed on this site alone. One is from the edition of forty on Japan Vellum and two are  the regular edition on handmade paper.

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