THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. POET LAUREATE. Selected and annotated by Francis T. Palgrave. The Golden Treasury series. - Rare Book Insider
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THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. POET LAUREATE. Selected and annotated by Francis T. Palgrave. The Golden Treasury series.

FINE BINDING. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). v, 640pp. Engraved Portrait frontis by G. Stodart. Finely bound, by Sotheran & Co. of London, in beautiful early full red morocco, gilt. The spine with raised bands, each ruled in gilt. Compartments ruled, fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Decorative panels and ruled line borders on boards to boards with floral corner decorations. Board edges with gilt decoration. Gilt inner Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A beautiful copy. A neat inscription, dated 1889, on the front blank free endpaper gifting the book for a birthday present from Uncle to Niece. Loosely inserted is a hand written poem, from the same Uncle to, and about his Niece. -- More photos available on request.
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THE PLAYS.

Reprints of 1926 pocket editions. 12 volumes. Complete. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.5 inches). An attractive set in publishers delux limp leather bindings with elaborate gilt decorated and lettered spines. Gilt stamped signature of George Bernard Shaw on the front boards. Top edges gilt. Housed in the publishers original drop front box with velvet padding inside the top panel and the author's signature stamped in gilt to outside of the top panel. The box is just a little rubbed but has done a great job of keeping the books in very good to fine condition, aside from one volume, Translations and Tomfooleries which has small areas of loss to the bottom of the boards, and a couple with minor fading. The volumes contain the following plays, some with many works to a volume; Plays Unpleasant (Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, Mrs Warren's Profession) ; Plays Pleasant (Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell); Three Plays for Puritans (The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion); Man and Superman (with The Revolutionist's Handbook and Maxims for Revolutionists); John Bull's Other Island (with How He Lied to Her Husband and Major Barbara); The Doctor's Dilemma (with Getting Married); Misalliance (with The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Fanny's First Play); Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled and Pygmalion); Heartbreak House (with Great Catherine and Playlets of the War); Back to Methuselah; Saint Joan (with The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet); Translations and Tomfooleries.