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Idylls of the King
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Idylls of the King - 1911

by Alfred Tennyson

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A Limited Edition. 1 of 350 copies, numbered 000 (possibly the Artist or Publisher's copy), signed by the Artist. Large 4to (300 × 240 mm), pp. [12], 173, [1], plus 21 tipped-in colour plates, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original gilt-decorated vellum. Published by Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1911. Original vellum a little rubbed and lightly marked, browning to the endpapers as usual, wanting ties. A very good copy. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale "travelled often to the continent and was clearly influenced by the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century art which she saw on visits to Italy. There were further exhibitions of her works at Leighton House in 1904, with a catalogue containing appreciative remarks by George Frederic Watts, and at Dowdeswell's in 1905 and 1909. She continued her illustrative work, which from about 1905 consisted of both line drawings and watercolours made for reproduction as half-tone colour plates. In 1911 two editions of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (de luxe and popular) were published with illustrations from her watercolours while the originals were on show in another of her one-woman exhibitions, this time at the Leicester Galleries. From that year she taught in the art school in Kensington founded by Byam Shaw." (Oxford DNB.) Please Contact Us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
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  • Title Idylls of the King
  • Author Alfred Tennyson
  • Illustrator Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
  • Edition Limited Edition
  • Condition Used
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton, London
  • Date 1911
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 29

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