A vintage hardcover book with a dark blue cloth binding and gold foil detailing, featuring the name 'TENNYSON' in gold lettering in the center and laurel wreath motifs in the corners.
A close-up of a vintage book or manuscript page with faintly legible embossed or printed text on aged beige paper, including a copyright line from 1899 by Richardson, Wright & Co.
The front cover of a vintage book titled 'The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson' with the Household Edition, printed in black serif text on aged tan paper. A small decorative illustration appears near the center, and the publisher 'Houghton, Mifflin and Company' is printed at the bottom.
A vintage black-and-white portrait print of a bearded man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, mounted on a beige paper border with an artist's signature at the bottom.
A close-up of a vintage book's inner cover or title page, showing printed text on warm tan paper with a black border and a central black rectangular label.
A vintage handwritten letter or inscription on aged beige paper, shown against a white background.
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A vintage hardcover book with a dark blue cloth binding and gold foil detailing, featuring the name 'TENNYSON' in gold lettering in the center and laurel wreath motifs in the corners.A close-up of a vintage book or manuscript page with faintly legible embossed or printed text on aged beige paper, including a copyright line from 1899 by Richardson, Wright & Co.The front cover of a vintage book titled 'The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson' with the Household Edition, printed in black serif text on aged tan paper. A small decorative illustration appears near the center, and the publisher 'Houghton, Mifflin and Company' is printed at the bottom.A vintage black-and-white portrait print of a bearded man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, mounted on a beige paper border with an artist's signature at the bottom.A close-up of a vintage book's inner cover or title page, showing printed text on warm tan paper with a black border and a central black rectangular label.A vintage handwritten letter or inscription on aged beige paper, shown against a white background.

Tennyson

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Description

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press (Boston and New York)
Year: 1899 (With a beautiful handwritten gift inscription dated March 1904)
Edition: Household Edition
Format: Hardcover / Deep blue cloth with gold-gilt paneled cover design and laurel wreath corners
Condition: Excellent / Near Fine
A quintessential artifact of late-Victorian domestic reading, carrying a tender piece of personal history within its pages.
During the late 19th century, no home library was truly complete without the verses of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. As Britain's longest-serving Poet Laureate, Tennyson captured the romanticism, anxieties, and deep melancholies of the era through legendary works like The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam, and his Arthurian epic, Idylls of the King. Publishers responded to this immense popularity by printing durable, elegant "Household Editions" designed to be picked up by the fireside evening after evening.
This beautiful 1899 volume from the prestigious Riverside Press is an exceptional example of that tradition. It brings together Tennyson's complete poetic and dramatic catalog, heavily enhanced by 127 period wood-engraved illustrations.
What makes this specific copy an unexpected treasure, however, is a beautifully preserved artifact of human connection hidden just past the cover. The flyleaf features a sweeping, elegant fountain-pen inscription that reads: “To dear Goldie, on her birthday, March nineteen hundred and four. From Margaret Russell Sloan and Anna Logan Sloan.” It is exactly the kind of intimate, historic detail that turns a classic book into a soulful centerpiece for a modern home.
Condition Notes
  • The Canvas: The deep blue cloth cover is in remarkably clean, sturdy condition for a volume that is well over a century old. The gold-gilt geometric grid lines, central text, and delicate corner laurel wreaths remain wonderfully distinct.
  • The Spine: Strong, stable, and completely square. The binding holds this hefty, illustration-packed text block securely with no sag or lean.


  • The Interior: The pages have aged gracefully to a soft, natural cream tone. The text and the extensive woodcuts are clean, crisp, and completely free of modern ink marks, stray pencilings, or torn corners. The historic 1904 gift inscription is sharp and perfectly legible.