The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts ... presented by Willy Pogany.

MASTERFULLY ILLUSTRATED & DECORATED BOOK - REGARDED AS POGANY'S MASTERPIECE - IN ITS MOST ATTRACTVE BURGUNDY SUEDE BINDING

first edition, de-luxe issue in burgundy suede binding large 4to. (32 x 23 cms.) [4 (colour printed half-title & titlepage)], [124]pp. on silky paper, the pages elaborately designed by Pogany using decorative calligraphic lettering for the text inside broad decorative borders and with colour and monochrome illustrations throughout by Pogany, most pages printed in two colours, 20 pages with tipped in coloured plates by Pogany, publisher's full burgandy suede (reversed calf) with yapp edges, upper third of the front cover boldly gilt blocked with a decorative design of a sailing ship in full sail and elaborate gilt title lettering, lower two thirds of the front panel with an elaborate bling blocked design, very decorative original endpapers designed by Pogany and printed in shades of buff, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, minor wear to foot of spine with loss of the projecting yapp edge, else a nice copy. A most attractive book, both internally and externally.

This beautiful and lavishly illustrated book was issued in two forms: (a) a special signed edition of 525 signed copies bound in tan calf, and (b) this (in fact more attractive) de luxe binding of full suede. The binding of the suede issue was fragile, especially at the edges, and copies as well preserved at this are rare.

The colophon at the end states "The letterpress and line illustrations were printed by Vincent Brooks Day and Son Ltd. and the four-colour plates by Benrose Dalziel Ltd. at London in the Year of Our Lord NCMX".
A trade edition was issued later, considerably smaller in format and with the decoration on the pages greatly reduced, but retaining the 20 tipped-in coloured plates. That trade edition appears to have been issued in several binding, in both morocco and in cloth.