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London: , 1919. Ride You Naked Through the Town, And I Repeal it" "Then She Rode Back Clothed on with Chastity" [SANGORSKI, Alberto, calligrapher]. [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Lady Godiva and Other Poems. [Sonnet - O Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet!] & [The Sea-Fairies]. [London: 1919]. A Very Fine Alberto Sangorski Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Large quarto (10 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 255 x 195 mm.). Eighteen vellum leaves, mounted on guards, including three blank leaves at front and one at back. [6, blank], 25, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [3, blank] pp. Interleaved with white silk. Written in black and red, with title in burnished gold, red, and purple. Two full-page miniatures of Lady Godiva (on pages 4 & 17). Three-half-page miniatures of Lady Godiva, and The Sea Fairies (on pages 7, 20 & 25) and two small miniatures of Tennyson, and Lady Godiva (on pages 1 & 12). Twenty-two pages with elaborate borders in gold and colors incorporating large illuminated… Read More

London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society,, 1914. One of twelve copies printed on vellum First Riccardi Press edition, number 11 of 12 copies printed on vellum from a total edition of 1,012 copies. This copy retains the publisher's advertisement slip loosely laid in. First issued publicly in 1850, this famous elegiac poem is a tribute to Tennyson's college friend, Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-33), son of the historian Henry Hallam. Tennyson's first verses had been published before he was 20, but after Hallam's death he published nothing for nine years, although all the while he was working on this poem, the product of protracted meditation. Written in rhyming quatrains, the poem moves from grief and doubt to certainty that the universe is purposeful. It achieved sensational popularity and struck a deep note of resonance with Victorian readers. The vellum issue of this edition is a fine example of the craftsmanship of the Riccardi Press, issued in a year that Tennyson's poem would find… Read More

London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875. First edition of the first book in Tennyson's historical trilogy. Small octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his son on the title page, "Hallam from A." Tennyson's eldest son Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson served as his father's personal secretary and served as his official biographer. His Tennyson: a Memoir was published in 1897 and he bequeathed many of his father's notebooks to Trinity College in 1924. A significant association copy. Regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age of poetry, English poet and dramatist, Alfred Lord Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850. In addition to his major works of poetry, Tennyson wrote several plays, among them his dramas Queen Mary, Harold, The Cup, and The Falcon.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1884.

1937. Softcover. Fine. A collection of 104 original artworks (85 hand-painted color illustrations and 19 woodcut prints) on fine paper sheets ranging in size from about 4 ½" x 7" to 8" x 12". Most measure about 6" x 8". All are in fine condition, neatly laid-in plastic sleeves in four later vintage albums. The designs are notable for their striking portraits of figures from literature with distinctive quadrilateral eyes, and for their layering of dark colors, often with gold and silver, which gives them a three-dimensional and jewel-like luminosity similar to Persian miniature paintings. Most are signed with the monogram "AM" in paint or pencil, and we know from provenance that the artist went by the name Anne Marie. We have reason to believe her full name may have been Anne Marie Bonnet and that at least some of her work was commissioned by the publisher Ben Abramson, although we have been unable to discover any further information. Approximately half of the works in this collection are neatly… Read More

London: Edward Moxon, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Original olive green cloth. A fine copy with a stanza of verse (from the original manuscript of the poem) signed by Tennyson tipped in. The poem underwent great modification over the course of the first five editions, published between 1847-1853. Provenance: Estelle Doheny.

New York: John C. Riker, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo, [2], 304 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in unsigned contemporary lacquered morocco, newly re-backed with gilt titling to spine. Features elaborate gilt decorated borders on boards, and mother-of-pearl fragments inset to edges. The front board is decorated with a hand-painted central cartouche showing a landscape scene with a river and cottage. All edges are gilt. Contains frontispiece, additional engraved title page, and seven plates (but lacking the illuminated presentation page). Text block has light tide-marks to fore edges. WM Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. 1348634. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Short description: In German (ask us if in doubt).In German. Berlin. Hofmann A. Co. 1882. VI, 65 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb0792450bbdfbd317

Original Edward Lear drawing in pen with black and grey ink and grey wash, numbered '43' to upper left and titled in pen with black ink to the lower sheet "And one, an English Home, - gray twilight pour'd / On dewy pastures, dewy trees / Softer than sleep:- all things in order stored / A haunt of ancient peace. (The Palace of Art.) / Hampshire, England". The house is the only English scene chosen by Lear in 'The Palace of Art' series was Lord Northbrook's Stratton House. Undated (1871). Overall size 13" x 11" (Mount aperture Size 8" x 5 1/2"). Very Good condition. Framed and glazed. (Not removed from the frame). Pencil note from previous owner to the reverse stating provenance was the Tennyson Trust. As featured in Ruth Pitman's "Edward Lear's Tennyson" Pg 81-86.
Provenance;
From a Private Collector
Previously from the Tennyson Trust

The First Essex House Press edition printed in 1905. One of 125 copies only, this copy is out of series and unnumbered. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Each printed on vellum and hand-coloured, with a frontispiece by Reginald Savage and Laurence Housman in collaboration, cut by Clarence Housman. Original vellum, spine lettered in gilt, rose and 'Soul is Form' blind-stamped on the front cover as issued. The vellum is in very bright condition with just some slight curling of the yapped edges. Printed in Caslon type. Hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, with hand-coloured and illuminated initials throughout. The frontis in this copy is highly coloured as opposed to some copies where there is far less colouring. Internally clean. The vellum covers are remarkably clean for their age. Tennyson's poem was first published in 'Maud, and Other Poems' in 1855, his first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850. The illuminations to this work were carried out by Anastasia Power. Power was a… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1909. Frontispiece of Tennyson. 2 pages slightly stained at top. Book is tight, binding (five bands) is burgundy with gilt lettering and decoration. 901 pages. 7 1/4 X 5 X 1 3/4 inches. FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS ON ALL 3 EDGES. A beautiful find! Previous owner's nameplate inside front cover.. Leathebound Hardback. Very Good Condition. Illus. by Original Fore-Edge Paintings on All 3 Edges .

Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press,, 1893. From the library at Keir House First Kelmscott edition, one of 500 paper copies, bound in contemporary morocco to the house style of collector Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 9th Baronet (1818-1878), with the Stirling clan crest badge gilt-stamped to the covers. Housed at his estates in Glasgow and Perthshire, Stirling's collection included mostly Spanish art (he was the first British collector of El Greco and Goya), works by William Blake, and illustrated books, including "the largest collection of emblem books ever amassed", now held in the Glasgow University Library. "The books were beautifully bound and embossed with Stirling's armorial devices, and he himself designed the ex libris slips which incorporated his mottoes, Gang Forward and Poco a Poco" (ODNB). His family continued to add to his collection in the years after his death, until its eventual dispersal in 1958. This copy is in the second state, with the four cancellan leaves (pp. 15/16, 19/20, 25/26,… Read More

London: for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, and J. and J. Jackson,, 1827. Very handsomely bound First edition, small paper issue, of Tennyson's first book of poems, published anonymously. Despite the title, there were in fact three brothers involved in the writing of the book, which included poems by Alfred, Charles, and Frederick. The publishers paid the authors 20 pounds for the copyright, a surprisingly large sum for unknown authors, obviously convinced of its merit. The work was issued simultaneously in large paper for 7s and small paper for 5s. Octavo (165 x 110 mm). Finely bound in late 19th-century red crushed morocco, spine with five raised bands, green morocco labels to second and third compartments, remaining compartments richly gilt with intricate flower and leaf tools, dots, and circlets, covers with foliate sprigs to corners enclosed within tools repeated from spine compartments, single gilt fillet border to covers, turn-ins with twin gilt rules to either side enclosing flower tools, blue… Read More

London; London: Effingham Wilson; Edward Moxon, 1833. First editions. First editions. Charles Merivale's Copies, signed by him on both volumes contemporaneously. Similarly bound in 19th Century wavy-grained maroon polished calf, ornate gilt border designs on both covers, morocco labels on spines, four bands with blind-stamped designs. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, with first issue error, on page 91 (mis-numbered as "19"). 154pp. with errata slip at end and no ads. Poems with "Ouverie" Street imprint on verso of title-page. A matching set handsomely bound with marbled edges on all three sides and marbled endpapers. Both with contemporaneous inscriptions, 1830 and 1833 by Merivale, noted English historian and churchman and main founder and promoter of the famed "Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race" which took place at Henley n 1829. His principal work, "A History of the Romans Under the Empire," was eight volumes 1850-1862. Poems with one thin peeling of leather about 2" long, else both very good or better.

London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.

London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1868.

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 8 5/16" × 5 11/16" × 1/2". Maud. A Monodrama; by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by William Morris, and published by Macmillan & Co., Bedford Street, Strand. 1893. Limited First Edition. First State. 8vo: 8 5/16" x 5 11/16" x 1/2" (21.1 x 14.4 x 1.3 cm). Bound in custom hardcover full leather with tooled design. One of 500 [at two guineas] paper copies (plus 5 [not for sale] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). All edges gilt. [iv], 69, [70, imprint] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with stanza numbers in red. Woodcut title within a floral border, facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 10a and 10). Numerous other floral edge borders at… Read More

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1895. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Spines evenly faded to brown, else fine with very nice shelf appearance. Illustrated Cabinet Edition" Twelve volumes. Illustrated from etchings after paintings. Bound for Putnam's in ha;f green crushed morocco with green cloth sides, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and panel designs of leafy poppies.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition. First edition. Superbly bound c. 1900 by Bradsteet's of New York (signed with an ink pallet on front endleaf) in full brown morocco with elaborate bold gilt blocked floral and quatrefoil centerpiece design on both covers, elaborate gilt-tooled spine. The name "Dr. Henry M. Garsson" appears in gilt at the bottom right front cover, gilt dentelles. First issue point of p.91 mis-numbered as "19." Also with the scarce errata leaf and even scarcer two-page advertisement at end. "Carcanet" is spelled correctly (second state point). This is Tennyson's first regularly published book. Bradstreet's was a very well-respected binder and received an 'honorable mention' in de Bois's "Historical Essay on Art of Bookbinding" (1883)/ Henry Garsson founded a munitions contracting business in 1941, and, interesting, after the war, was found guilty of defrauding the U. S. government and was imprisoned. Fine.

London, Macmilland & Co. Ltd., 1898-99. With 12 frontispieces, 4 plates,and 1 facsimile. 8vo. Slightly later three-quarter morocco, spines gilt with gilt lettering and date, top edge gilt (by Zaehnsdorf). London, Macmilland & Co. Ltd., 1898-99. One of 1050 copies of this de luxe edition, dedicated to the Queen. Fine set of the collected works of Tennyson (1809-1892), poet laureate and the most famous of Victorian poets, including "Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Memoir" in four volumes, written by his son. Beautiful fine bindings by the famous English bookbinder Zaehnsdorf. - Occasional light foxing. LITERATURE: ENGLISH ;