“Water, water, every- where, nor any drop to drink” 28. LE CAIN, Errol; COL- ERIDGE, Samuel Taylor THE RIME OF THE AN- CIENT MARINER Callig- raphy by David Howells. The Arcadia Press, 1972. First edition. Folio. Num- ber 61 of 110 copies, ten of which were not for sale. Signed by Errol Le Cain, David Howells, the calligrapher and Philip Rowson, the paper-mak-
A spectacular and beautiful production, manufactured entirely by hand, from the ‘seaweed paper’ created by The Wookey Hole Mill for the covers and the text, the hand printing of the calligraphic text by Wood Westworth and the half vellum binding hand-crafted by the Zaehnsdorf bindery.
29. RACKHAM, Arthur FABLES D’ÉSOPE Ha- chette, 1913. First French language edi- tion illustrated by Rack- ham. Signed limited edi- tion. Copy number 419 of 430. Cream cloth with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt, oth- ers untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and twelve further colour illustra- tions tipped in on brown
er. This is a magnificent production half bound by Zaehnsdorf in white vellum over “seaweed boards”. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Housed in the original slipcase. Original advertis- ing leaflet from Arcadia Press, explaining that the publication was timed to coincide with the 200th Anniversary of Coleridge’s birth, loosely inserted. The paper used is hand-made paper specially designed with a seaweed motif. There are ten magnificent tipped in colour plates,
art paper as well as numerous black and white illustrations by Rackham. A very good copy, tanned to spine and with short, closed tears to the half title, a small scratch to the frontispiece and two plates with creased corners, end papers neatly replaced. [46311] £300
which measure 30 cm x 21 cm., in Le Cain’s vibrant early style, reminis- cent of some of the great golden age il- lustrators, such as Nielsen and Clarke. A fine bright copy, in a fine slipcase. [46523] £2,500
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