Alfred Tennyson — Maud and Other Poems.

London, Edward Moxon, 1855. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Tennyson's first collection of poetry after becoming Poet Laureate in 1850. The second issue, adverts to the front dated August 1855. This is one of the first publications of Maud, a poem inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, with whom the narrator of the poem falls passionately in love with before losing his own sanity. In a contemporary cloth binding with the label for 'Mudie's Library', Manchester to the front board. Label has been chipped due to attempted removal. This label is for a subscription library. Maud was considered Tennyson's favourite of his own works and often recited it in full at parties. The other poems included are, The Brook, An Idyll, The Letters, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, The Daisy, To the Rev. F. D. Maurice, Will and finally The Charge of the Light Brigade which had been banned for eight and a half years as a disgrace. With publisher's advertisements to the front of the work. In a cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed with loss to library plate on front board. Marks to boards and sunning to spine. Bumped corners and head and tail of spine with loss to tail of spine. Backstrip lifting and top section of backstrip will detach with further handling. Further portions of the backstrip are weak and may detach. Front hinge tender, rear hinge strained but firm. Internally, binding tender in places. Pages generally bright and clean with scattered spotting Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .