The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson. Published around 1885 by Worthington, New York (no date). The book has a dark navy cloth cover with contrasting red and black embossed decoration and a gilt title block. The upper right cover corner is crushed. The gilt decoration on the spine is bright but there is some sunning and cloth wear & fraying on the upper and lower backstrip. The back cover has sunned to have purple undertones and there are soil or moisture spots. There is gilt on the foredge. The endpages are beige with a name on the left endpage. The title page feels fragile is detached around 2" from the lower edge. There is a black and white frontispiece. The pages are moderately to heavily toned throughout with a red decorative Victorian page border. The pages are mostly soft. 482 pages. Size: 7.5 x 5.25".
The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson. Published around 1885 by Worthington, New York (no date). The book has a dark navy cloth cover with contrasting red and black embossed decoration and a gilt title block. The upper right cover corner is crushed. The gilt decoration on the spine is bright but there is some sunning and cloth wear & fraying on the upper and lower backstrip. The back cover has sunned to have purple undertones and there are soil or moisture spots. There is gilt on the foredge. The endpages are beige with a name on the left endpage. The title page feels fragile is detached around 2" from the lower edge. There is a black and white frontispiece. The pages are moderately to heavily toned throughout with a red decorative Victorian page border. The pages are mostly soft. 482 pages. Size: 7.5 x 5.25".
