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Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed first edition, limited to 525 numbered copies in England and America, #137, signed by Pogany on limitation page. Full brown morocco with gilt cover design, gilt spine titles, top edge gilting, pictorial end papers, sewn in silk bookmark. Published NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910. Folio, 9 1/2" x 13", printed on Japan vellum, unpaginated, Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates, calligraphic text, decorative borders plus illustrations in color and line throughout the text. A stunning work. Some scuffing, wear along the edges of boards, small, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, internally near fine, pages clean, no foxing or markings, page block crisp, all plates present, binding tight. Rare. Size: Folio
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Presented by Willy Pogany throughout, including tipped-in color plates. Folio, publisher's full pictorial gilt leather, t.e.g., in custom later slipcase. First edition: No. 138 of 525 copies signed by Willy Pogany. Some light rubbing at the extremities of the spine and boards; the contents fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2874.16 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, numbered 125 of 525 copies signed by the artist. Pogány's illustrated edition of Coleridge's famous long poem is one of the artist's most lavish undertakings, and was clearly inspired by the grand medieval tradition of book illustration. The book was co-published by George Harrap in the UK, and Thomas Y. Crowell in the US. As noted by Richard Dalby, "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". Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, 1991, p. 87. Quarto. Original brown calf, spine and front cover lettered and illustrated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With title page, 20 tipped-in colour plates, other full page illustrations, each page of text within decorative borders, all by Willy Pogány. Some abrasions to covers; a near-fine and bright copy with uncreased plates.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom