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Alfred Tennyson

The Lady of Shalott

Dodd, Mead & Co

1881

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Beautifully illustrated first-edition copy of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott.

  • Lord Alfred Tennyson (English).
  • Decorated by Howard Pyle (American).
  • New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1881.
  • Chromolithography by Brett Lithographing Co.
  • Square Octavo.
  • Bound in original red cloth, spine gilt, upper board stamped in gilt and red and black, beveled boards, all edges gilt.


Pyle's second commission to illustrate a book, after Yankee Doodle, published the same year. “The Lady of Shalott, designed in the rather florid Art Nouveau style enjoying popularity in England, was quite unlike any other color illustration that Pyle ever did, and … it is an interesting period piece with more vigor and invention than most British illustration of the time” (Pitz).

Literature

Pitz, p. 52.

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Occasional light wear to binding.

Pages lightly toned.

Feature(s)

First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Childrens, Poetry, Prints and colour plate, Illustrated

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