The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate
by TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine. A trace of rubbing at extremities, with moderate spotting to endpapers & traces to preliminary pages. Binding tight,
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1906. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. A trace of rubbing at extremities, with moderate spotting to endpapers & traces to preliminary pages. Binding tight, text bright and unmarked. Handsome contemporary POI to verso of front free endpaper.. 8vo. 5.125 x 7.625 in. viii, 901 + [1] pp. Dark blue half-calf over blue cloth, titled and ornamented on spine with enchanting arts-and-crafts floral motif, with blue marbled endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of Tennyson after photograph by J. Mayall, with tissue guard. A gorgeous copy of a classic poet, by one of the great modern publishers.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121
- Title
- The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate
- Author
- TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine. A trace of rubbing at extremities, with moderate spotting to endpapers & traces to preliminary pages. Binding tight,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
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Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
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Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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