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Alfred Tennyson. The Princess; A Medley.. London: Edward Moxon, 1847.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. First edition with original green publisher's cloth bound in the rear. Black morocco with 5 raised bands and decoration in gilt, cover shows minor wear. Marbled endpapers, ownership label and price sticker on the front pastedown, repaired gutter of the front free endpaper, binder's gilt device on the rear pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. Tennyson's narrative poem before the later revision which added a more explicit anti-feminist message.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Tennyson, Alfred Lord. The Princess: A Medley.. Edward Moxon, London, 1847.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Tennyson's serio-comedic narrative poem about the heroic Princess Ida. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and ruling to the panels stamped in blind. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age of poetry, English poet and dramatist, Alfred Lord Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850 and remains one of the most popular English poets. The Princess; A Medley tells of a beautiful and accomplished princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. Several later works have been based upon the poem, including Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Princess Ida.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

TENNYSON, Alfred.. The Princess; A Medley. Edward Moxon, London, 1847.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original olive green cloth. A fine copy with a stanza of verse (from the original manuscript of the poem) signed by Tennyson tipped in. The poem underwent great modification over the course of the first five editions, published between 1847-1853. Provenance: Estelle Doheny.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.