The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Hardcover
- Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929
Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. Jones, David. 37 pages. Folio, 33 x 26 cm. One of sixty copies numbered copies with an additional suite of plates signed by Jones on the colophon. Total edition, copy 95 of 400. Jones, a friend and contemporary of Eric Gill converted to Roman Catholicism, the two spending three years (1924-1927) at Gill's home in southern Wales after both worked together at the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic in Ditchling, Sussex. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK 136. "Jones usually favored wood, rather than copper engravings......He also designed the device of the Golden Cockerel Press." Wide text margins, interior contents very fresh and clean, covers dusty.