The Idylls of the King
Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
First edition, second issue binding with pink lettering on the upper cover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate heraldic decoration on the spine and upper cover. 21 tipped in colour plates, with captioned tissue-guards, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. A very good copy, some browning to preliminary pages.
Includes Arthurian inspired verse, Tennyson's Guinevere, as well as Elaine, Enid and Vivien. Tennyson's poetry was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and is accompanied here by Brickdale's Pre-Raphaelite style illustrations.
Stock ID: 39790
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