THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 1907 FINE RIVIERE BINDING

[TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD]. The Works. London: Macmillan and Co., 1907.

Reprint. Full leather. Octavo (190 x 120 x 50 mm.), pp. viii, 901. Handsome contemporary tree calf by Riviere & Son (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet). Smooth spine. Gilt ruling and tooling to spine and boards. Gilt inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title page present. Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard. Index to rear. Printed by R. & R. Clark. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with minor trace of rubbing to spine ends and joints. Contents remarkably fresh and clean, with some spotting confined to frontis-leaf. Without previous ownership markings. A beautiful and rare Riviere binding.