These two volumes were superbly bound by Florence Paget, a noted bookbinder, who was an early student of Douglas Cockerell. Stamp-signed in gilt to rear dentelle, "F. P. 1907," they are in full green crushed morocco in an Art Nouveau-style, with three-quarter inch border designs consisting of flowering vine and tulip blooms. There are an additional sixteen open flowers at corners and sides on each cove. The spine has five raised bands and six compartments, two of which are lettered in gilt, the other four with similar gilt motif as covers, all edges with a single gilt fillet rule and with six gilt rules on both top and bottom edges of spine.... Thick dentelles with gilt fillet borders and three open flowers with leaves at each corner, cream-colored endpapers, all edges gilt.... lovely examples of Paget's understated but aesthetic design elements. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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Tennyson, Alfred. Poems. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: Edward Moxon, 1846.
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