CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH, binder . TENNYSON, ALFRED. Poetical Works, London, 1899. 8vo, "Vellucent" binding of transparent vellum over light green paper, broad double gilt fillet on three sides of each cover and crossing the spine, covers and spine decorated with a unified design comprising a fine pen-and-ink watercolor drawing in the style of Jessie M. King of the kneeling "King Arthur Pendragon" holding Excalibar on the upper cover and the kneeling "Guinevere his Queen" holding a Book of Hours on the lower cover, each figure set against a background of Art Noveau flowers heightened with gilt dots, figures facing one another across smooth spine containing a white and gilt-lettered panel label supported by a gilt and colored Art Noveau flower spray; turn-ins gilt-ruled, marbled paper and vellum doublures, marbled endpapers, g.e., stamped signed by binder on upper turn-in.
CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH, binder . TENNYSON, ALFRED. Poetical Works, London, 1899. 8vo, "Vellucent" binding of transparent vellum over light green paper, broad double gilt fillet on three sides of each cover and crossing the spine, covers and spine decorated with a unified design comprising a fine pen-and-ink watercolor drawing in the style of Jessie M. King of the kneeling "King Arthur Pendragon" holding Excalibar on the upper cover and the kneeling "Guinevere his Queen" holding a Book of Hours on the lower cover, each figure set against a background of Art Noveau flowers heightened with gilt dots, figures facing one another across smooth spine containing a white and gilt-lettered panel label supported by a gilt and colored Art Noveau flower spray; turn-ins gilt-ruled, marbled paper and vellum doublures, marbled endpapers, g.e., stamped signed by binder on upper turn-in.
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