Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/104
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)—continued. 756 Idylls of the King. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, ovzginal cloth, uncut. London, 1859. £2 10s 757 Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After, etc. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ovzginal cloth. London, 1886. 10s 6d 758 The Love Story of ‘* In Memoriam.”’ (Letters from Arthur Hallam to Emily Tennyson. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, o7vzginal wrappers. London, Privately Printed, Circa 1917. £7 10s Only 25 copies printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends. 759 Maud, and other Poems. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, Moxon, 1855. £3 10s BOUND BY COBDEN SANDERSON. 7600 Maud, and other Poems. First EDITION. 12mo, bound by Cobden Sanderson (Dove's Bindery) in full red levant morocco extra, gilt floreated back, gilt line and dots on sides, inside gilt dentelles, g.e. London, 1855. £32 A fine example of the Doves Binding dated 1896. 761 Odeon the Death of the Duke of Wellington, FIRST EDITION. 8vo, orginal wrappers, uncut. London, 1852. £1 10s 762 ** Ode on the Opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.’’ By Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. Tuesday, 4th May, 1886. London, William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Official Printers and Publishers to the Royal Commission. 4 pp., 4to, bound by Riviere in full crimson levant morocco, t.e.g. London, 1886. £52 10s This handsome brochure was produced solely for official purpose, or for the use of the Court, at the Opening Ceremony of the Exhibition, and is now of the extremest rarity, very few copies having apparently been printed, and fewer still preserved.—T. J. Wise.
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