TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.
The Miller’s Daughter …
London, Published by W. Kent & Co late David Bogue … [1858].
4to, ff. [17], with frontispiece portrait; lithographically printed on thick paper throughout, each leaf with tissue guard; some spotting and offsetting to guards, but a very good copy; bound in early twentieth-century turquoise polished calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt red morocco lettering-pieces, edges gilt, marbled endpapers; spine sunned; monogrammed bookplate ‘I F A’ to front pastedown.
A handsome edition of The Miller’s Daughter, attractively illustrated by Anne Lydia Bond (1822–1881).
An early work by the young Tennyson (1809–1892), The Miller’s Daughter was published in 1833 and substantially revised in 1842; the 1842 text is here interpreted in a series of vignettes by the artist and illustrator Anne Lydia Bond (1822–1881) and published by permission of the author.
