[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son | Hand-Colored Vellum] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson E-List 12 California

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Limp pink cloth boards with elaborate gilt decoration to front cover and spine

in addition to extensive notes in the Appendix relating to the sales and buyers of DGR's works listed there

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[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son | Hand-Colored Vellum] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson E-List 12 CaliforniaTennyson, 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