Shelfmark
Kpp.2.15
Author
Title
The poetical works / of Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate. Numerous illustrations.
Publication, distribution, etc.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871.
Physical description
vi, [2], [9]-254, 1-54 p.: ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Note
Title vignette (author's portrait).
Note
Title page verso: "To the present edition are added 'Timbuctoo', the author's Cambridge University prize poem; poems published in the London editions of 1830 and 1833, and omitted in later editions; and a number of hitherto uncollected poems from various sources."
Note
Music (by Arthur Sullivan) for "The window; or, The songs of the wrens": 54 p. at the end.
Provenance
Ms. note (MCM's handwriting) on front flyleaf: "Presented by the Countess Sorgo, 2005".
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound red polished calfskin and marbled paper over ?paste/millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets to separate paper from leather. Spine decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling ("Tennyson's poetical works"). Textblock trimmed, rounded, and marbled. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Genre/Form
Musical works.
Added entry--name
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842 - 1900 composer.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Tennyson's poems.
Added entry--place
United States New York New York City.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51807