TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord). Poems, London, Bradbury & Evans for Edward Moxon, 1857, 4°, FIRST EDTION THUS, portrait frontispiece of the author after Thomas Woolner, wood-engraved illustrations after D.G.Rossetti, J.E.Millais, F.Sandys, W. Holman Hunt and others, CONTEMPORARY DARK GREEN MOROCCO COMPETITION-BINDING BY J. & J.LEIGHTON, the upper cover and spine elaborately tooled in gilt, the lower cover with a single-fillet border, g.e. Provenance: International Exhibition, London, 1862 (manuscript note of purchase by): William Thirlwall Bayne (armorial bookplate).

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TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord). Poems, London, Bradbury & Evans for Edward Moxon, 1857, 4°, FIRST EDTION THUS, portrait frontispiece of the author after Thomas Woolner, wood-engraved illustrations after D.G.Rossetti, J.E.Millais, F.Sandys, W. Holman Hunt and others, CONTEMPORARY DARK GREEN MOROCCO COMPETITION-BINDING BY J. & J.LEIGHTON, the upper cover and spine elaborately tooled in gilt, the lower cover with a single-fillet border, g.e. Provenance: International Exhibition, London, 1862 (manuscript note of purchase by): William Thirlwall Bayne (armorial bookplate).

One of the pivotal books in the history of British book-illustration in a very fine avant-garde binding.

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