THE PRINCESS

by Howard Chandler Christy, Alfred Lord Tennyson

$750 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Signed

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911 . First Christy-illustrated edition of this mock-medieval Tennyson poem, very scarce signed. Very good plus. Item #48206 Howard Chandler Christy's art of elegant, attractive women led to him being hailed as the successor to Charles Dana Gibson, and the Gibson Girl of the 1890s and 1900s was soon replaced by the Christy Girl of the 1910s. Christy would go on to illustrate a

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