Coleridge's Ancient mariner / illustrated by David Scott, R.S.A., with life of the artist, and descriptive notes on the plates, by the Rev. A. L. Simpson, D.D., Derby.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/4178
Author
Variant Title
The rime of the ancient mariner
Imprint
London; Edinburgh; New York: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1885
Physical Description
vi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
General Note
Reproduces at a much-reduced scale David Scott's Scenes from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a series of 25 etchings originally published by Alexander Hill, Edinburgh 1837.
Copy Note
The front pastedown carries a printed book plate which states that the book was originally awarded to an (unnamed) attendee of the Bruntsfield Evening School, Edinburgh for perfect attendance, Winter Session 1896-97.
Binding Note
Brown pictorial cloth covers with gold, black and brown impressing, bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Spine lettered in gold, red and black: `The Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by David Scott R.S.A.'
Subject
Illustrated books
19th-century poems
19th-century poems
