COLERIDGE || DARAGNES, La Chanson du vieux marin , 1851
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor || DARAGNES, Jean-Gabriel.
La Chanson du Vieux marin.
Paris, Société des francs-bibliophiles, 1951.
4to (280x220 mm), 122-(1) pages. binding : Leaves under slipcase.
First edition of the illustrations. Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) is undoubtedly one of the most famous illustrator of the middle of the XXth century, he signs here one of his last creations with sixteen original compositions. He died during the publication and did not have time to engrave them himself
One of the 160 copies on pur fil by Vidalon, ours n°155.