KELMSCOTT PRESS: TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Maud. A Monodrama. First Kelmscott edition, one of 500 paper copies, bound in contemporary morocco to the house style of collector Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 9th Baronet (1818-1878), with the Stirling clan crest badge gilt-stamped to the covers.Housed at his estates in Glasgow and Perthshire, Stirling's collection included mostly Spanish art (he was the first British collector of Goya and El Greco), works by William Blake, and illustrated books, including "the largest collection of emblem books ever amassed", now held in the Glasgow University Library. "The books were beautifully bound and embossed with Stirling's armorial devices, and he himself designed the ex libris slips which incorporated his mottoes, Gang Forward and Poco a Poco" (ODNB). His family continued to add to his collection in the years after his death, until its eventual dispersal in 1958.This copy is in the second state, with the four cancels (pp. 15/16, 19/20, 25/26, and 69/70) printed after the discovery of several typographical errors two months after publication.

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