"It ceased; yet still the sails made on

A pleasant noise till noon..."

Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) (Author of Kubla Khan, Nightingale, Christabel)

Strikingly Illustrated by Gustave Dore. 1995 Platinum Press, New York, hardcover with dust jacket.

What a story. What a lesson! If you have ever sailed or even spent time on the water, this story creeps into your soul like the seawater squeezing through your stuffing box into your bilge! Unforgettable.

This is a beautiful book in like-new condition, but with an eerie coincidence of misbound pages .....

Precisely at the climax of catastrophe.....Three pages of 'Part the Seventh' are oddly inverted! 

A book binder's blunder....or a sailor's fate? You decide! (See twelfth photo.)

From the copyright page:
  "The type in this facsimile edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, originally published in 1876, has been meticulously reset in the classic typeface, Bodoni. Every effort has been made to preserve the historical integrity of the original publication, from the choice of typestyle to the observation of antiquated punctuation.

  The original engravings have been painstakingly reproduced, with only the addition of a simple ruled border to accentuate Dore's artistry and the craftsmanship of his engravers."

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