Tuesday, July 29, 2014

CA. 1911 IDYLLS OF THE KING BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ~ ILLUSTRATED BY ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE

CA. 1911

IDYLLS OF THE KING
BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
ILLUSTRATED BY ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ TIPPED-IN COLOR PLATES ~ CLASSIC POETRY ~ ARTHURIAN LEGEND ***

Edinburgh: Hodder and Stoughton, no date, circa 1911.
Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.

• measures about 8'' x 6''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding designed by Frank Hazenplug - signed with designer's initials FH
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• patterned endpapers
• vignette title page
• tipped-in color frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard
• illustrated with 11 additional full-page tipped-in color plates, each with captioned tissue-guard

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