The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson / Alfred Tennyson

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson / Alfred Tennyson

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.198

Description

823 pages. Tissue guarded frontis portrait. Illustrations.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

5-1/4 in

Book Details

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

circa 1890

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

Design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Bound in beveled brown cloth with black and gilt stamping in an asymmetrical vertical panel design of interweaving vines in black and leaf and bud vine in gilt. Title in gilt and series title: "Household Edition of the Poets" in black to bottom of cover. Same motif repeated to spine. Brown stone endpapers. All edges gilt.

Notes

No publication date.