The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Title: The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Author: Tennyson, Alfred

Publication: Troy, N.Y.: Nims and Knight, 1885.

Description: First edition thus. "Complete edition, from the author's text." With black-and-white illustrations by English and American artists throughout, including a frontispiece portrait of Tennyson with tissue guard. In publisher's binding of full brown cloth, with floral decoration and lettering stamped in gilt, red, and black on the front cover and spine, gilt text edges, and floral-patterned endpapers. viii, 742 pages; 10 x 6.5 inches. Former owner's ink signature on the title page (Wm. Woodhouse, Jr.). Light pencil annotations on a few pages, bumped spine ends, and mild toning to the text, but overall, a Very Good+ copy in an attractive binding.