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'The Famous Publishing Company of Harper and Brothers' 1863 Anonymous

Title page from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T. Coleridge, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1876 Gustave Dore

The mariner, as his ship is sinking, sees the boat with the Hermit and Pilot Gustave Dore

The Mariner, having finished his story, turns to leave, while his listener, the wedding guest gazes on him in wonderment... Gustave Dore

The Pilot faints Gustave Dore

The Mariner gazes on the serpents in the ocean Gustave Dore

Crowd of onlookers and spectators at the wedding Gustave Dore

The two fellow spirits of the Spirit of the South Pole ask the question why the ship travels so swiftly... Gustave Dore

The sailors see in the distance a ghostly ship Gustave Dore

The rain begins to fall Gustave Dore

The Mariner gazes on the ocean and laments his survival while all his fellow sailors have died Gustave Dore

The sailors becalmed and tormented by thirst Gustave Dore

The Mariner up the mast during a storm Gustave Dore

The Mariner begs the Hermit to give him absolution from his sin Gustave Dore

The Mariner describes to his listener, the wedding guest, his feelings of loneliness and desolation while on the ship Gustave Dore

The ship sinks but the Mariner is rescued by the Pilot and Hermit Gustave Dore

The Spirit that had followed the ship from the Antartic Gustave Dore

The Mariner has been condemned to travel unceasingly from country to country Gustave Dore

The angelic spirits leave the dead bodies and appear in their own forms of light Gustave Dore

The Mariner, surrounded by the dead sailors, suffers anguish of spirit Gustave Dore

The albatross being fed by the sailors on the the ship marooned in the frozen seas of Antartica Gustave Dore

The Mariner regrets his shooting of the Albatross Gustave Dore

The first vision of his native country by the Mariner, freed from his trance and woken from sleep Gustave Dore

Oxen Hauling Corn Edwin Forbes

The dead sailors rise up and start to work the ropes of the ship so that it begins to move Gustave Dore

The Kentucky Lynching Anonymous

The Mariner aloft in the poop of the ship Gustave Dore

The Bride and Groom entering the hall Gustave Dore

The mariner sees the band of angelic spirits Gustave Dore

Reproducing Speech C A Keetels

The ship continues to sail miraculously, moved by a troupe of angelic spirits Gustave Dore

The 'Night-mare Life-in-Death' plays dice with Death for the souls of the crew Gustave Dore

The Mariner, condemned to travel unceasingly from country to country, is also condemned to relate his story to people he... Gustave Dore

The marooned ship in a moonlit sea Gustave Dore

Professor Lowe's Balloon Anonymous

Ship in Antartica Gustave Dore