POGANY, Willy (illus.); COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A handsomely produced publication, a reissue of the 1910 deluxe edition with a new elaborate binding featuring intricate onlays and text reproduced in Pogany's manuscript-style lettering. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was among the artist's most ambitious exercises in total book design, drawing consciously on the tradition of medieval illuminated manuscripts.As Richard Dalby observes, "Willy Pogány was Dulac's most successful European contemporary during the highest peak of the Golden Age of book illustration... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was his most ornate and impressive production, with hand-scripted text, full-page black and white drawings and colour plates tipped-in on grey matte paper. This combination of illustration and calligraphic text by the artist was rarely repeated" (p. 87).

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