The May Queen / by Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate ; illustrated by E.V.B. [i.e. Eleanor Vere Boyle]

Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron Tennyson

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/3507

Author

Imprint

London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47, Ludgate Hill, MDCCCLXI

Physical Description

38, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Provenance

The front free-endpaper is inscribed in ink: Annie Brown / From her sincere friend / S. S. Baker / June 1865.

Copy Note

The rear pastedown carries the ticket of Bone & Son, book binders of 76 Fleet Street, London.

Binding Note

Brown cloth boards with bevelled edges. Gilt stamping to the front board and pictorial designs. Upper cover and spine lettered in gilt: "The May Queen."

Subject

Illustrated books
19th-century poems

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