DORÉ, Gustave (illustrator). – Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: Doré Gallery, 1875. Folio (493 x 373mm.) Half-title, title in red and black with large vignette, 39 plates with tissue-guards. (Spotting to preliminaries and text leaves and to four plates, occasional finger-mark.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (rebacked and tips repaired, heavily stained). – And a further five illustrated volumes (John Keats’ ‘Endymion’, illustrated by W. St. John Harper, [1888], 4to, and Goethe’s ‘Hermann und Dorothea’, 1881, 4to, and, edited by C.M. Dias, ‘História da Colonizacao Portuguesa do Brasil’, 3 vols., 1921-1924, 4to). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21 (6).