Artifacts
Description:
Small red leather bound book with metal edges. Front Cover is decorated with black ink and gold embossed letters in a decorative cut recess on purple sateen, reading: "TENNYSON". The pages are all edged in gold. Spine reads: Tennyson Poetical Works" in a gold decorative font. Title page reads: "Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Pub. George Rautledge and Sons, NY: 416 Broome Street". Pages have numbered poem verses similar to Bible, with etched illustrations and gold edging.
Title:
Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
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