print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.374
- Description
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Tennyson, Alfred. Poems. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1857. London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars. v, 376p. In the ‘List of Illustrations’, the artists are given as [full names where possible]: Thomas Creswick, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, William Mulready, John Chalcott Horsley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clarkson Stanfield, Daniel Maclise. The engravers are listed as: [full names where possible]: T. Williams, Dalziel Brothers, John Thompson, William James Linton, W. T. Green, C. T. Thompson. The frontispiece plate is a portrait bust of Tennyson, after H. Robinson, ‘From a medallion by Thomas Woolner’. The illustration on page 13 is after William Holman Hunt, entitle ‘Recollections of the Arabian Nights’. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding the price of this copy are on the front endpaper verso. He has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Brothers Archive for 1856: nos. 643-653, excluding 648; 1857 nos. 1161-1166. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Red morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked in blind and in relief, with an identical design. Multiple fillets are blocked in blind on the borders. On each corner, curling stems, leaves and and nine petalled flowers are blocked in blind and in relief. Straps are formed on the centre sides by the fillets. More fillets in blind form the central oval, in which an urn, with large handles is blocked in gold. The spine is blocked in gold. From the head downwards, curling stems, and leaves and flower buds form a pattern – all blocked in gold. Within a panel formed by this decoration, the words: “/ Tennyson’s/ Poems./” are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres (size of book)
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Thickness: 44 millimetres (size of book)
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Width: 168 millimetres (size of book)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Known as "The Moxon Tennyson".
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.374