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TENNYSON, ALFRED PoemsLondon, Edward Moxon & Co. 1860. Early reprint, 21.5 x 15.5cm (4to), in publisher's navy morocco-grain cloth w/elaborate gilt & embossed decorations & title (designed by Albert Warren, w/his monogram to spine) to covers & spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g. pale yellow ep.s, [i-v] vi-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1] 2-375 [376] cardstock pp. w/54 wood engravings by the Dalziels, W.J. Linton, etc. after D.G. Rossetti, J.E. Millais, W. Holman Hunt, etc. + tissue-guarded frontis portrait engraving by Thomas Woolner, & 2 leaves from the 1862 "Ceremonial to be Observed at the State Opening of the International Exhibition" w/2pp. "Ode by Alfred Tennyson" (the source for Thomas J. Wise's ca.1889 forgery, spuriously dated 1862--see Carter & Pollard's "Enquiry," and Barker & Collins's "Sequel") tipped in to rear. Printed by Bradbury & Evans, London. With the decorative bookplate of the Rev. B.W.J. Trevaldwyn, Rector of St. Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, to fr. pastedown, & his ink initials to recto of fr. ep. Binding Good (extremities moderately bumped & worn, hinges mended, & lt. foxing to ep.s); contents Very Good (occas. lt. foxing). .
Offered for CAD 680.00 = appr. US$ 658.92 by: Leonard Roberts, Bookseller - Book number: 779
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