Poems Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Vale Press, 1900.
First edition. One 320 copies on hand made paper. Finely bound in contemporary red morocco with an elaborate border of gilt floral motifs with small inlaid morocco leaves, outside a border of punched gilt dots, enclosing an exquisite centrepiece using the same floral and leaf motifs of the border with intertwining gilt stems and the title in the centre. The rear cover has the same design without the centrepiece. Raised bands to spine, with geometric design of punched dots to sections inside ruled borders with small inlaid morocco leaves to the corners. Wide morocco turn ins, with gilt ruled borders and intertwining leaf design with morocco inlays. Decorative initials by Charles Ricketts. A very good copy indeed with a little wear to the joints and raised bands and a small library mark to the base of the spine, but overall a very handsome copy of painstaking and elaborate fine binding.
Curiously, the binding is unsigned, but bears all the hallmarks of Douglas Cockerell and is most likely by him or a pupil.
Stock ID: 31925
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