[TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD]. The Complete Works. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1894.
NEW EDITION. Leather-bound with vanishing fore-edge painting; hardcover; octavo (18.5 x 12 x 4.5 cm); pp. viii, 898. English text in double columns. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son, in unusual full pale buff-tan calf with gilt tree branch & leaf design motif on both the upper cover and the spine; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; rear index. With a wonderful twentieth century fore-edge painting added to this binding, showing a scene of a couple kissing, within an wooden interior scene with a large rounded window, a book lays open in the man's lap, the lovers have clasped each other's hands in their romantic embrace. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Light handling marks to covers. Early ownership presentation inscription to front endpaper. Textblock remaining clean. Scarce thus.
