TENNYSON, ALFRED — Enoch Arden

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Illustrated Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Darley. Publisher's full brown bevelled and beaded cloth, reverse lettering on gilt panel on spine, reverse and gilt lettering on gilt and reverse gilt panels and medallion on cover, blind-stamped panels and medallion on rear cover, AEG. 12mo. 154 pp. (Only 58 pages numbered on recto only, pages with illustrations not numbered). Illustrated with tissue-protected engraved frontispiece portrait of Tennyson and 19 tissue-protected full page engravings by John La Farge, Elihu Vedder, William J. Hennessy, and Felix O. C. Darley; as well as numerous head and tail-pieces and decorated initial capitals. First US Illustrated edition. The first (non-illustrated) edition was published in London and NY the previous year.. Gift inscription on preliminary page dated Febr. 3, 1865, otherwise unmarked; boards mildly rubbed, head and heel of spine and corners lightly worn, tight and square, text block and all illustrations are clean and bright. VERY GOOD.. Engravings. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (154) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .