
Title: Early poems.
Publisher: Bryce, David & Son. Glasgow. Frederick A. Stokes Company. New York.
Publication Date: 1900
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Circa 1900. viii, 184 printed pages. Full-page frontispiece illustration. Title page with Art Nouveau border decorations. All edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 62 x 92mm. Original burgundy roan in a yapp style binding (some pitting to covers, lower back corner very slighty damaged); spine with gilt lettering "Tennyson's Poems". Golden Thought series volumes/Dainty Little Library/Tartan series number 74. The Dainty Little Library saw Bryce re-packaging around thirteen or so classics from the Golden Thoughts and Tartan Series, with art-nouveau re-designed title pages and bindings by Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), a Scottish female children’s book illustrator of high esteem. Volumes 1-5 were Lord Tennyson’s works. 6 and 7 were by Walter Scott. 8 and 9 were Robert Burns title. 10 to 12 were by Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, and Macaulay respectively. All in attractive limp leather bindings of harlequin colours. Garbett, 50. Welsh, 6637. This edition not in WorldCat. Seller Inventory # 5400