ENOCH ARDEN Etc.

A fine early printing handsomely bound and presented. 8vo, beautifully presented in a deluxe binding of full pebbled brown morocco, the upper cover lettered in gilt within a triple-blind-ruled framework, the spine with raised bands triple-ruled in blind, the compartments with blind tooling at the centers, gilt lettered in one compartment, blind tooled turn-ins and a.e.g. [vi], 178 pp. A very fine copy in essentially pristine condition, the text clean and fresh with very little evidence of spotting, the binding solid, unworn, unfaded, a truly lovely copy.

Edizione: a truly pleasing and handsome copy.<br> tennyson's narrative poem was originally published in england during his tenure as poet laureate. the story is about a fisherman turned merchant sailor who goes back to sea to better support his wife and family; but is shipwrecked on a desert island. after his rescue some 11 years later, he returns to find his wife is now happily married to another man. enoch never reveals to his wife and children that he is really alive, as he loves her too much to spoil her new happiness.<br> the poem, a sort of antithesis to the classical myth of odysseus, has lent its name to the principle in law that after being missing a certain number of years (in the united states typically seven), a person could be declared dead for purposes of remarriage and inheritance.