[ii], 738pp, with portrait frontispiece. Full red leather binding, five raised bands, green leather title label on spine, with gilt decorations and gilt armorial stamp of Marlborough College on the upper panel. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. Leather a little rubbed at corners and spine ends, some shelf wear, a little sunned over spine. Internally a little faint spotting on first and last few leaves else neat, clean, bright and tight. Inscribed on the first blank to George Boscawan Randolph, First Drawing Prize, 1882, by G C Bell (master).
A pleasingly tactile and imposing volume containing the works of the then Poet Laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson. In a Marlborough College bespoke leather binding.