SECOND EDITION. IN A FINE BINDING OF FULL RED LEATHER RAISED BANDS GILT MARBLED ENDPAPERS. FOUR VOLUMES IN ONE. TITLE PAGES HEAVILY FOXED FOXING TO PARTS OF BOOK 3 OTHERWISE CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. TWO BOOKPLATES OF A PREVIOUS OWNER HAND-WRITTEN NOTE OF THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE OF THE BOOK TO FEP AND MANUSCRIPT POETRY TO REAR END PAGE.
VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. THIS PIONEERING BIOGRAPHY ESTABLISHES IN DETAIL THE PERSON EMILY TENNYSON WAS. IT IS THE STORY OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY AS WELL AS A REMARKABLE WOMAN BRINGING INTO THE FOREGROUND A NEGLECTED AND OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD CHARACTER A CENTURY AFTER HER DEATH.
THE REVISED ILLUSTRATED EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 279. TOGETHER WITH A TWO-SIDED HAND-WRIITEN LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR ADDRESSED FROM CHEYNE WALK. HAYWARD SHARED A FLAT WITH T. S. ELIOT. THE BOOK IS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROGER SENHOUSE (PUBLISHER TRANSLATOR AND MEMBER OF THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP) WITH HIS BOOKPLATE AND SIGNATURE. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH TEG. VERY GOOD.
FIRST EDITION 2 VOLS. COMPLETE. A CATALOGUE OF SEPARATELY PRINTED POEMS WITH NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY COLLECTED EDITIONS. THICK QUARTO VOL 1: CATALOGUE 923 PAGES. VOL 2: INDEXES 302 PAGES. BOTH VOLUMES NEAR FINE IN DUSTWRAPPERS.
LIMITED TO 222 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM-PAPER WITH THE ORIGINAL TYPES OF GIAMBATTISTA BODONI BOUND IN FULL VELLUM GILT TITLES AND MOTIF TO FRONT BOARD. BOOKPLATE OF ROBERT ELWELL TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. SMALL INSCRIPTION TO FEP. VERY GOOD IN A WORN AND DAMAGED SLIPCASE.
FIRST EDITION 12 mo pp vi 188 2 FINE PLATES. HANDSOMELY REBOUND IN QUARTER CALF OVER MARBLED BOARDS. EROTIC LOVE POEMS IN LATIN. A REMARKABLY FRESH COPY TIGHTLY BOUND. SCARCE.
VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. EMBELLISHED WITH SOME 750 ELEGANT WOODCUTS AND ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD AND COPPER OF WHICH UPWARDS OF 125 ARE NEATLY COLOURED. SELECTED WITH GREAT CARE FROM BOOKS FOR JUVENILE MINDS: 1765-1830. DESIGNED BY ERIC AYERS.