“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was published for the first time under Coleridge’s name in a collection of his poems titled, Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, in 1817.
1) Among Coleridge’s significant works in Sibylline Leaves are “The Nightingale,” “France: An Ode,” “Dejection: An Ode,” and as previously mentioned, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Book is bound in full mottled calf, with red Morocco label for the title on spine, and gilt letters and edges
The poems found in Sibylline Leaves are gathered from Lyrical Ballads, various journals, manuscript poems, and from ‘loose papers’ and the ‘Margins of Books & Blank pages.'
1) Sibylline Leaves was initially planned to be the second volume of an intended two-volume collection composed of Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves. This plan was abandoned and Rest Fenner acquired the sheets and published Sibylline Leaves.
Sibylline Leaves features the first appearance of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with the gloss and an additional stanza, featured on page fifteen.