ESSEX HOUSE PRESS: COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. First Essex House Press edition, number 1 of 150 copies, each printed on vellum and hand-coloured by Florence Kingsford Cockerell (1871-1949), one of the leading book illuminators of the English arts and crafts movement. She studied calligraphy under Edward Johnston and predominantly worked for the Ashendene Press.The Essex House Press "came from the heart of the arts and crafts movement" (Franklin, p. 64). It was founded by Charles Robert Ashbee and Laurence Hodson following the closure of William Morris's Kelmscott Press in 1897; after Morris's death, Ashbee bought his Albion printing presses, and employed one of the Kelmscott compositors, Thomas Binning.

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