Enoch Arden, etc.

£400 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A lovely copy of the first edition of Alfred Tennyson's Enoch Arden, among other poems, beautifully bound in contemporary gilt-panelled vellum. First edition, first printing; 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm); three newspaper clippings on the subject of Lord Tennyson loose, pencil inscriptions to front and rear endpapers, slight offseting to front pastedown, light spotting to title and endpapers; contemporary gilt-panelled vellum, contrasting green morocco lettering piece to spine, all-over gilt chain design to spine, all edges gilt, some signs of wear on binding, very good; [vi], 173pp, [2]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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