[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Private Press 74: mezzotint of John Coke

74: mezzotint of John Coke (Secretary of State to Charles I) by George White

Letchworth: W

along with some minor gilt loss

with no blind stamped border to the covers

The illustrated title page and Arts & Crafts-influenced opening initial are especially interesting

[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Private Press 74: mezzotint of John CokeTennyson, Alfred Lord. The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London: Macmillan, 1899. Frontispiece profile portrait of Tennyson. Bound in dark blue green morocco by Riviere & Son, with a large inlaid red flower to the front board, with details in gilt, and gilt stem along with smaller tooled bud. Five bands to spine with title in the second compartment. Gilt ruled turn ins with small leaves at corners, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.