[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son | Hand-Colored Vellum] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson E-List 19 with a pattern of crowns

with a pattern of crowns in the corners

almost identical faces

London: Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [The Vale Press]

So This then is the Appreciation of Ali Baba of East Aurora

Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford

[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son | Hand-Colored Vellum] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson E-List 19 with a pattern of crownsTennyson, Alfred Lord. The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound in full vellum by Riviere & Son, featuring a scene in tooled in gilt on the front cover of the terrace of an Italian villa, with stonework, posts, arches, leaves & branches, and a small potted bush in the foreground. (A small book has been left on the terrace ledge.) This design has been delicately hand