Alfred Lord Tennyson - Guinevere and Other Poems. Illustrated by Florence Harrison
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Alfred Lord Tennyson - Guinevere and Other Poems. Illustrated by Florence Harrison - London, Glasgow & Bombay - Blackie & Son Ltd. - 1912 - 1st edition - [xv], 156, [4] pp - Cloth binding - 20 x 26 cm.
Condition: Good - COMPLETE. The cream-white cover is inevitably somewhat blotchy, the top edge with a stain and some specks.
Poems by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), i.a. based on the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Illustrated with black and white drawings and 24 tipped-in COLOUR PLATES by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Florence Susan Harrison (1877-1955). With table of contents. Text in English.
Includes Guinevere, Sir Galahad, St. Agnes' Eve, The Lady of Shallott, Morte D'Arthur, The Mermaid, Recollections of The Arabian Nights, Ulysses, Godiva, The Departure, The Lotos-Eaters, Lyric from Maud, Love and Death and A Dream of Fair Women.
¶ Bound in creamy white linen Art Nouveau binding with gold stamped title and decoration on cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Alfred Tennyson was the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate and is the second most cited author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare. He was a prominent figure in the "Pre-Raphaelite circle."
