ASSOCIATION COPY
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Enoch Arden, etc. …
London, [Bradbury & Evans for] Edward Moxon & Co., 1864.
8vo, pp. [4], 178; a good copy in the original green cloth, blocked in blind; sunned with a few slight marks; ink presentation inscription ‘JMGM. from JAGM.’ to title, dated ’16 Aug. 1864’ in pencil, ink inscription ‘Read by J and J together walking down the Lag 1864’ to p. 151, ink inscription ‘To be bound in green morocco and left to Conor’ to front free endpaper verso.
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Enoch Arden, etc. …
First edition, an association copy belonging to James Aubrey Garth Marshall and given by him to his daughter Julia Mary Garth Marshall (later O’Brien).
The Marshalls were old friends of the Tennysons and had hosted them during their honeymoon in 1850; James and Julia had both appeared in 1857 in the famous group portrait by Lewis Carroll of the Marshalls with Tennyson and his son Hallam.
Enoch Arden was published in August 1864 to immediate success. One of the most popular of the other lyrics included was ‘In the Valley of Cauteretz’, the poem read by Tennyson’s friend and his daughter out walking. P. 151 is inscribed ‘read by J and J together walking down the Lag 1864’, likely Lag Bank in the Lake District.
Wise I, 107.