1879; Alfred Tennyson; London, Kegan Paul and Co.; Full Leather; 666 Pages; w5.1"xh7.1"; Rare!

• Beautiful full maroon leather cover design with blind stamped borders/cross/clover emblems to each corner, matching binding with gold title, gold page edges, marble end pages, gold gilded inner board edges, portrait frontispiece, and a Great Read!

• Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.