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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English, 1772–1834)
Illustrated by: Gustave Doré (French, 1832–1883)
Engraved by: Albert Bellenger (French, 1846–after 1914)
Engraved by: Emile Deschamps (French, 19th century)
Engraved by: Adolphe Gusman (French, 1821–1905)
Engraved by: Paul Jonnard-Pacel (French, active 1854–1895)
Engraved by: Charles Laplante (French, 1837–1903)
Engraved by: François Pannemaker (Belgian, active in France, 1822–1900)
Engraved by: Héliodore Pisan (French, 1822–1890)
Engraved by: Désiré Mathieu Quesnel (French, active 1869–1910)
Publisher: Harper & Brothers (American, founded in 1817)
1877
Place of Publication: New York, New York, USA

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with wood engravings
Dimensions Overall: 47.3 x 37.6 x 2.5 cm (18 5/8 x 14 13/16 x 1 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.2248
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877

Catalogue Raisonné Malan, Doré Gallery, pp. 131-37, 261.
Description(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877) 47.3 cm; 12 pp., plus 39 plates; original publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped red embossed cloth.

Second American edition (first published in London and New York 1876). According to Malan (p. 133), Harper printed their editions from "electrotypes made from the original blocks."
ProvenanceRev. J. W. Withrow; his daughter Mrs. Brewer, by whom presented on September 27, 1909, to William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.