Alfred Tennyson — Maud, and Other Poems

London, Edward Moxon, 1855. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alfred Tennyson's 'Maud and Other Poems', his first published collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850. First edition, third or later issue, with the 8pp publisher's catalogue of advertisements to the front dated October, 1855. Second issue copies give advertisements dated August, 1855. In the original blind stamped cloth binding. Lacking front free endpaper. Maud was considered Tennyson's favourite of his own works and often recited it in full at parties. Described as "terribly strange, weird, disturbing (and) powerful" it was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring and Frances Poulett-Thomson.Among the other poems is The Charge of the Light Brigade, which had appeared in 1854 in The Examiner under Tennyson's pen name. In the original cloth binding. Lacking front free endpaper. Externally, slight fading to the spine and rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spine is slightly cocked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .