Willy Pogany, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A limited first Pogany-illustrated edition of The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, signed by Pogany.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English).
• Illustrated by Willy Pogany (Hungarian).
• London: George G. Harrap and Co, (1910).
• Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates, calligraphic text, decorative borders plus a profusion of stunning illustrations in color and line throughout text, many full-page.
• Part of an edition of 525 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Pogany.
• Signed by Pogany on limitation page. 
• Original full brown calf, gilt-stamped and -lettered, top edge gilt, other edges uncut.

Often called Pogany's masterpiece, this production owes much to the aesthetics of Morris's Kelmscott Press and Ricketts's Vale Press, as well as artists like Gustave Doré and Aubrey Beardsley. Printed on silky, high-quality paper, each page features decorative borders and interlocking designs in subtle colors.