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The Albatross - loved and feared


Light-mantled Sooty Albatross
photo by
Vincent Legendre
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Coleridge.

A collector’s edition of four immortal poems by
Coleridge with superb illustrations by one of UK’s
leading wood-engravers, Harry Brockway
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Wandering Albatross
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Engraving by Gustave Doré (1832-83) for an 1876
edition of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Coleridge
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'Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.'


'The Albatross about my Neck was Hung',
etching by William Strang.
Poem illustration published 1896
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From the journal 'Jornal O Panorama, 1937
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Yellow-nosed albatross
by Brian Gratwicke
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Detail from Gustav Doré's engraving of
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, ca. 1850
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