TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. [TIMBUCTOO, A POEM]. Prolusiones Academiæ Præmiis Annuis Dignatæ et in Curia Cantabrigiensi Recitatae Comitiis Maximis. John Smith for the University Press, Cambridge, 1829.

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Description: String-tied pamphlet in publisher's blue wraps (5-3/8" x 8-1/2"); 41, [3] pages. Tennyson's second published work, presented in company with the other Chancellor's prize-winners of the year, and the first to appear under his own name. Tennyson was too shy to read his prize-winning poem in blank verse aloud in the Senate House and asked Charles Merivale to undertake the reading of his work as well as Merivale's own Latin poem, also published here. William Harris Arnold's copy, with his small bookplate on the inside of the front wrapper. Uncommon in original wrappers. Some fraying to the spine of the wrappers with loss, minor creasing. Near Fine

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Timbuctoo. A poem, which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement M.D.CCCC.XXIX. [In:] Prolusiones Academiæ Præmiis Annuis Dignatæ.. John Smith Printer to the University, Cambridge, 1829.

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Description: First separate issue. Pp 3-13 [41 pp total]. Series title-page plus five section titles. 1 vols. 8vo. One of Tennyson's earliest poems, for which he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal while a student at Trinity College. Apparently the future poet laureate was too shy to read the piece aloud in the Senate House, as was the custom for the winner, and asked ask Charles Merivale-whose own prize winning poem in Latin is also included here, along with C.R. Kennedy's in Greek-read in his stead. Wise, Tennyson 4. Provenance: Howard Lehman Goodhart (bookplate in chemise) Original gray wrappers a bit wrinkled, otherwise fine. Housed in cloth chemise Pp 3-13 [41 pp total]. Series title-page plus five section titles. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.