April 12, 2024
1872 Rare Leather Book Set - Alfred Tennyson Works
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resents: 1872 Rare Leather Book Set - Alfred Tennyson Works Tennyson, Alfred. TheWORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON Poet Laureate . (Complete set of 6 volumes) London, Strahan and Company, Publishers 1872-73. Printed by Whittingham. Books measures : 8"X5". xi, 374; vi, 293; vi, 287; (i), 311; (i), 274; (i), 294 + "To The Queen" pages. SUPERB and Very good full leather binding heavily decorated in gilt on spine (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed). All edges gilt. Very good content (exlibray copy, marbled endpapers, bright, tight and clean, ink stamps on title page). With a portrait frontispiece. The books: A very nice 19th century set with superb binding. Tennyson was made Poet Laureate in succession to Wordsworth in 1850. He was held in the highest regard by Victoria and Albert. All of his great works are included , including the "Idylls" and the "Charge of the Light Brigade". A handsome publication produced during the poet's lifetime. The author: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, although In Memoriam was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister,
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