Alfred Lord Tennyson : A Memoir by His Son

Alfred Lord Tennyson : A Memoir by His Son
Hallam Lord Tennyson

in Four Volumes, comlete.

1898, NY, MacMillan Company / London, MacMillan & Co Ltd.

Four Volume Set, 9-3/8" x 6-1/2"
Vol 1, 246 pages, Vol 2, 270 pages, Vol 3, 260 pages, Vol 4, 291 pages

Illustratiions : All volumes illustrated with engraved mezzotint portrait frontispieces signed Samuel LawrenceWalker & Boutall, Ph.Sc", on paper with watermark of John Dickinson & Co, after oil paintings by Samuel Laurence & G.F. Watts, and photographs by John Mayall & Barraud's Ltd.; plus other illustrations throughout (total 36 plates).

Binding : Handsome morocco leather, spines with five raised bands, gold titled (& dated "1908" at spine bottoms, presumably by the binder), gold line borders around boards, "THOMAS W. BEST", possibly the binder, stamped at top of first front free endpaper.

Gold-gilt top page edges, side and lower edges deckled.
Spine margins scuffed, volume 1 spine scuffed, cracked & chipped, vol 1 front board detached, pages clean and fresh throughout all volumes.

All volumes dedicated with permission "To the Queen". Text includes correspondence with Queen Victoria and with Charles Dickens.

Complete four volume set .......................................................................................................SOLD