Folio Archives 372: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – LIMITED EDITION 2010
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1wcarter
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Three Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – LIMITED EDITION 2010
Between 2008 and 2016 the Folio Society published a series of six superb quarter leather bound limited editions. They were –
Gulliver's Travels (reviewed here.)
Just So Stories
Wind in the Willows (reviewed here.)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam (reviewed here.)
Alice in Wonderland
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (this review).
One of the most famous and evocative poems in English literature, the Folio Society has gone all out in this limited edition.
There are 16 tipped in full colour illustrations by Harry Brockway, each with a decorative border printed on the supportive paper. All pictures are on a verso page with the picture title on the previous recto page. The woodblock printed frontispiece engraving is signed and numbered. Mine is number 776 of 1000 copies.
The book has 205 pages, but the text is printed on the recto page only, leaving all verso pages blank. It contains three poems other than The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. They are Christabel, Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep. There are explanatory notes beside many verses.
It was printed on Corvier Wove paper by Martins the Printers at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Quarter bound in vellum blocked with gilt text on spine, vellum tips to corners of boards, deckled fore and lower page edges with gilt top edge. The front cover illustration is produced with metallic foil. The endpapers are printed with a grey decorative pattern. Hand bound by the Fine Book Bindery, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, with spine hand-lettered in gilt by Stephen Raw.
The solander box measures 36x27.5cm. and is covered in black grosgrain silk with a red title label on the edge. The price at time of publication was £450.
The Folio Society also published a standard edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1994 which is reviewed here.
Large Quarter Leather Bound series of Limited Editions
Rime of the Ancient Mariner LE
. . . . .
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
Between 2008 and 2016 the Folio Society published a series of six superb quarter leather bound limited editions. They were –
Gulliver's Travels (reviewed here.)
Just So Stories
Wind in the Willows (reviewed here.)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam (reviewed here.)
Alice in Wonderland
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (this review).
One of the most famous and evocative poems in English literature, the Folio Society has gone all out in this limited edition.
There are 16 tipped in full colour illustrations by Harry Brockway, each with a decorative border printed on the supportive paper. All pictures are on a verso page with the picture title on the previous recto page. The woodblock printed frontispiece engraving is signed and numbered. Mine is number 776 of 1000 copies.
The book has 205 pages, but the text is printed on the recto page only, leaving all verso pages blank. It contains three poems other than The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. They are Christabel, Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep. There are explanatory notes beside many verses.
It was printed on Corvier Wove paper by Martins the Printers at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Quarter bound in vellum blocked with gilt text on spine, vellum tips to corners of boards, deckled fore and lower page edges with gilt top edge. The front cover illustration is produced with metallic foil. The endpapers are printed with a grey decorative pattern. Hand bound by the Fine Book Bindery, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, with spine hand-lettered in gilt by Stephen Raw.
The solander box measures 36x27.5cm. and is covered in black grosgrain silk with a red title label on the edge. The price at time of publication was £450.
The Folio Society also published a standard edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1994 which is reviewed here.
Large Quarter Leather Bound series of Limited Editions
Rime of the Ancient Mariner LE
. . . . .
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
2FitzJames
I adore these editions. The Grahame and Carroll being two I would love to possess, though know the likelihood of that ever occurring is exceedingly low.
Technically the series is not 'quarter leather bound,' since they are vellum, no?
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/leather/
Technically the series is not 'quarter leather bound,' since they are vellum, no?
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/leather/
3CabbageMoth
Christabel is such a wonderful poem that doesn’t get enough love imo. Very nice to see these illustrations!
5ubiquitousuk
Superb all round.
But am I the only one who prefers the late Brockway's illustrations uncoloured?
But am I the only one who prefers the late Brockway's illustrations uncoloured?
6assemblyman
>1 wcarter: Thanks for the lovely review and quite timely with Brockway's death. I would just mention the standard Brockway edition for this which was published in 2017.
>5 ubiquitousuk: I'm not sure. I think the coloured illustrations in this LE may have a bit more vibrancy than the uncoloured ones in the standard edition but I would be quite happy with either of them. I only have the Garrick Palmer edition but I intend to get a Brockway edition at some point in the future. The same conundrum for me when there is a standard and an LE, which one to get.
>5 ubiquitousuk: I'm not sure. I think the coloured illustrations in this LE may have a bit more vibrancy than the uncoloured ones in the standard edition but I would be quite happy with either of them. I only have the Garrick Palmer edition but I intend to get a Brockway edition at some point in the future. The same conundrum for me when there is a standard and an LE, which one to get.
7Jayked
>5 ubiquitousuk:
Joe Whitlock Blundell was on record as preferring the black and white illustrations, and I waited for the standard edition too. For reading purposes the entire vellum series is a bit high-maintenance.
Joe Whitlock Blundell was on record as preferring the black and white illustrations, and I waited for the standard edition too. For reading purposes the entire vellum series is a bit high-maintenance.
