Editions Alecto - Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With twelve aquatints by Patrick Procktor. Royal 4to, pp.vii[1], 34 [+ inserted plates and extra plates], Published by Editions Alecto, London, [1976].

Number 8 of 110 (135) copies signed by the artist but without four loose aquatints in a pocket at the rear. Handset in 20-pt Palatino Italic, with side-notes in 9-pt Century Schoolbook Bold, and printed on Barcham Green Crisbrook hand-made paper. Title-page lettering by Sebastian Carter. Quarter blue canvas with morocco label gilt, special patterned sides in blue and grey, grey handmad endpapers, blue canvas slipcase. A fine copy, tissue-guarded.