First edition thus. Signed by the illustrator. Containing an original print by Harry Brockway. Original red paper-covered boards over vellum, the spine lettered in gold, with a large, elaborate illustration on the upper board in gold, silver, copper and black. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 16 tipped in colour illustrations by Brockway. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Housed in a fine black buckram solander box with a red title label lettered in gilt to the spine.
Limited to 1000 copies. An original print is tipped in opposite the limitation page and is signed and numbered "553" in pencil by Harry Brockway. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel', 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Pains of Sleep' are beautifully illustrated with wood engravings by Harry Brockway and luxuriously bound and produced by The Folio Society.
Stock code: 26081
£400