The Works -
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1915 - Macmillan and Co., London
An elegantly bound volume of the complete works of Alfred Lord Tennyson featuring his celebrated works ‘Mariana’, ‘The Lotos-Eaters’, ‘Godiva’, and ‘Ulysses’, among many others. With a frontispiece portrait of Tennyson engraved by G. J. Stodart from a photograph by J. Mayall.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all’ – In Memoriam A.H.H. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was Poet Laureate of Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. Admired for both his lyrical poems and his verse based on classical and mythological themes, he remains one of Britain’s most popular poets.
‘Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.‘ – The Charge of the Light brigade.
‘It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.’ – Ulysses.
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Of the binder - James MacLehose (1811-1885) established himself as a bookseller in Glasgow in 1838, initially in partnership with Robert Nelson, and on his own from 1841. In 1849 he moved to 61 St. Vincent Street and in 1862 a bindery was added. In 1881 he took on his two sons and they carried on the business after his death. A portrait of the founder was printed in The British Bookmaker, vol.VI, no.66, December 1892, pp.125-6, and the reported noted that "the binding department has been made a very important branch of the establishment, where work is executed in the very best style, but no ordinary trade work is done. All the books bound here are either the firm's own work, or the work of private customers who, appreciating its quality, frequently send long distances to secure the execution of their orders meeting their own requirements. Levant, morocco, and a special calf are the principal styles, hand finished and single lettered, and though many of the books are elaborately bound with special designs, a large share are in the severely plain style which finds favour particularly in Scotland" - Edward Bayntun Coward, The British Library, The British Bookmaker.
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Large octavo (binding size 19.4x13.6cm), pp. [4] viii 901 [5]. Finely bound by Maclehose of Glasgow in full burgundy straight-grain morocco, gilt lettering ruling to spine, twin gilt filet borders to boards and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder trimmed. Condition: Fine but for slight spotting to edges of portrait frontispiece, in fine binding. Ref: 112083 Price: HK$ 3,000
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all’ – In Memoriam A.H.H. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was Poet Laureate of Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. Admired for both his lyrical poems and his verse based on classical and mythological themes, he remains one of Britain’s most popular poets.
‘Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.‘ – The Charge of the Light brigade.
‘It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.’ – Ulysses.
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Of the binder - James MacLehose (1811-1885) established himself as a bookseller in Glasgow in 1838, initially in partnership with Robert Nelson, and on his own from 1841. In 1849 he moved to 61 St. Vincent Street and in 1862 a bindery was added. In 1881 he took on his two sons and they carried on the business after his death. A portrait of the founder was printed in The British Bookmaker, vol.VI, no.66, December 1892, pp.125-6, and the reported noted that "the binding department has been made a very important branch of the establishment, where work is executed in the very best style, but no ordinary trade work is done. All the books bound here are either the firm's own work, or the work of private customers who, appreciating its quality, frequently send long distances to secure the execution of their orders meeting their own requirements. Levant, morocco, and a special calf are the principal styles, hand finished and single lettered, and though many of the books are elaborately bound with special designs, a large share are in the severely plain style which finds favour particularly in Scotland" - Edward Bayntun Coward, The British Library, The British Bookmaker.
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Large octavo (binding size 19.4x13.6cm), pp. [4] viii 901 [5]. Finely bound by Maclehose of Glasgow in full burgundy straight-grain morocco, gilt lettering ruling to spine, twin gilt filet borders to boards and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder trimmed. Condition: Fine but for slight spotting to edges of portrait frontispiece, in fine binding. Ref: 112083 Price: HK$ 3,000