Gareth and Lynette. etc.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Strahan and Co., 1872. Arthurian Legend FIRST EDITION. Octavo 18 x 12cm , pp. 6 136 10 . Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. A lovely clean copy, partially unopened, with some rubbing to spine. Near fine. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend of King Arthur 'The Idylls of the King' originally consisted of four poems titled 'Enid', Vivien', 'Elaine' and 'Guinevere', building to a total

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