Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

The Princess; a medley. Edward Moxon, 1847,  first edition; Maud, and other poems. Edward Moxon, 1855, first edition, some spotting, joints starting, covers slightly stained; In Memoriam. Strahan and co., 1870, later edition; Gareth and Lynette etc. Strahan & Co., 1872, first regular edition; Queen Mary. A Drama. Henry S. King & Co., 1875, first edition (with misprint "Behled" in first word of first line of p.126); Harold. A Drama. Henry S. King, 1877, first edition; The Lover's Tale. C. Kegan Paul, 1879, first published edition; Ballads and other poems. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880; Becket. Macmillan and co., 1884, first published edition; Tiresias and other poems. Macmillan and co., 1885, first edition; Locksley Hall. Sixty Years after etc. Macmillan and co., 1886, first edition, with author's printed presentation slip  ("From the author") tipped in at the beginning, with ? autograph date in month of publication ("December | 1886"); The Death of Œnone, Akbar's Dream, and other poems. Macmillan and co., 1892, first edition;  all London imprints, original cloth bindings, some with advertisements, some ownership signatures, some wear to cloth bindings, occasional offsetting and spotting (12)

Wise 24, 58, [cf. p.115], 125, 129, 131, 10, 138, 133, 153, 156, 165

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First and early editions of the Victorians' best-loved poet, whose virtues were later aptly summarised by T.S. Eliot: "Tennyson is a great poet, for reasons that are perfectly clear. He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets: abundance, variety, and complete competence" (Selected Essays, 1951, p.328)