Alfred Tennyson — The Princess: A Medley

London, Edward Moxon, 1860. Cloth. An illustrated edition of Tennyson's poem about a heroic princess, with many engravings and bound in a decorative cloth binding. An illustrated edition. First published in 1847. Illustrated with twenty-six monochrome vignettes, engraved on wood by Dalziel, Green, Thomas and E. Williams from drawings by Daniel Maclise. Collated, complete. This work features Tennyson's poem about a heroic princess who creates a woman's university where men are forbidden to enter, and her betrothed who sneaks in dressed as a women. Alfred Tennyson was the Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892. Bound in a decorative gilt cloth binding. In the publisher's original decorative cloth. Externally sound with rear joint tender, slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities, and the odd closed tear to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge tender and rear weak with spotting to the endpapers. Internally, binding tender in places. Pages very slightly age toned with light spotting throughout. Good . Ill.: Dalziel; Green; Thomas; E. Williams; Daniel Maclise. Good .