Friday, June 27, 2014

CA. 1888 POETICAL WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON - Illustrated Victorian Publisher's Decorative Cloth Fine Binding

CA. 1888

THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON;
POET LAUREATE

COMPLETE EDITION

ILLUSTRATED

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ EMBOSSED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ EXQUISITE ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ***

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., no date, circa 1888.

• measures about 8'' x 6''
• beautiful decorative brown cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• embossed gold gilt, red, and black stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• patterned endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with numerous full-page engraved plates, each with tissue-guard





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