The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson / Alfred Tennyson
Book
823 pages. Tissue guarded frontis portrait. Illustrations.
2015.7.198
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1890s
8 in
5-1/4 in
Alfred Tennyson
Household Edition
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
circa 1890
Publisher's Binding
Sarah Wyman Whitman
Design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Bound in beveled brown cloth with black and gilt stamping in an asymmetrical vertical panel design of interweaving vines in black and leaf and bud vine in gilt. Title in gilt and series title: "Household Edition of the Poets" in black to bottom of cover. Same motif repeated to spine. Brown stone endpapers. All edges gilt.
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