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An Introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. by JONES, David. CLOVER HILL EDITIONS - 1972

by JONES, David. CLOVER HILL EDITIONS

An Introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. by JONES, David. CLOVER HILL EDITIONS - 1972

An Introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

by JONES, David. CLOVER HILL EDITIONS

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London: Clover Hill Editions, 1972. One of 215 copies, this no. 109. Original copper plate engraving by David Jones on the title page. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on grey Hodgkinson mould-made paper in Ehrhardt types. Printed on blue paper. 4to., original publisher’s full green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Small bump on top right corner and slight ruckling to bottom of spine, otherwise a very good copy.||The preface by Douglas Cleverdon tells how David Jones wrote this introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for the 1964 Clover Hill reprint of his 1929 illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, also published by Douglas Cleverdon.
The introduction David Jones produced was a significant 16,000 words and too long for the reprint so Cleverdon decided to publish it separately as the seventh of the Clover Hill Editions.| David Jones’s long introduction to his 1929 edition of the poem finally comes into print
  • Bookseller SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS GB (GB)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Clover Hill Editions
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1972
  • Keywords David Jones;Douglas Cleverdon;Clover Hill;Coleridge Book,Illustrated
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London: Clover Hill Editions published by Douglas Cleverdon, 1977. 10 wood engravings by David Jones printed from the original blocks. No. XVI (16) of 80 special copies with a separate suite of all the engravings printed on japon. Printed on Barcham Green mould made paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Gill’s Golden Cockerel type, title page printed in red and black. Sm. folio, original quarter niger with marbled paper covered boards and a niger label on the upper cover lettered in gilt, extra set of engravings loose in the original cloth portfolio, both housed in the original cloth slipcase with printed paper label to spine. An extremely good set||Originally the ten engravings were going to include two printed offset, however while the text was being prepared, the missing two blocks were unearthed in Wales so all the engravings were printed from Jones’s original blocks.The first printing of the blocks was in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1927. In this edition Robert… Read More
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