Accession number
PML 142844
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Published
London : Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1866.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Stipple engraved frontispiece of a medallion portrait of Tennyson.
Illustrated with 21 wood engraved vignettes and 4 full page illustrations after Hughes; with some of them signed by T. Bolton as engraver.
"Printed by Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Whitefriars: The illustrations and cover from drawings by Arthur Hughes: The frontispiece engraved by J.H.Baker, from a medallion by Thomas Woolner ..."--half t.p. verso.
"Works by the Poet Laureate"-- p. [83].
Includes a 16 p. publisher's catalog, dated December, 1865, at end of text.
First edition; a few copies were issued with title "Idylls of the hearth," but that t.p. was cancelled upon the eve of publication.
Illustrated with 21 wood engraved vignettes and 4 full page illustrations after Hughes; with some of them signed by T. Bolton as engraver.
"Printed by Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Whitefriars: The illustrations and cover from drawings by Arthur Hughes: The frontispiece engraved by J.H.Baker, from a medallion by Thomas Woolner ..."--half t.p. verso.
"Works by the Poet Laureate"-- p. [83].
Includes a 16 p. publisher's catalog, dated December, 1865, at end of text.
First edition; a few copies were issued with title "Idylls of the hearth," but that t.p. was cancelled upon the eve of publication.
Description
81, 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of Forrest Reid, J.N. Hart and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green cloth blocked in gold.
Classification
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