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A fine early printing. 8vo, beautifully presented in a deluxe binding of full pebbled brown morocco, the upper and lower covers with outer borders of double gilt fillet framework enclosing and inner blind ruled border enclosing a gilt fillet frame, the upper cover with large central ornamental device gilt, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt lettered in one compartment, all edges gilt. [iv], 183 pp. A very fine and very pleasing copy, the binding very handsome and especially well preserved, the text-block in excellent order, as pristine.

Edizione: beautifully bound edition of tennyson's poem published shortly before his tenure as poet laureate. very popular in its time, it is the basis for gilbert and sullivan's 1884 comic opera princess ida. the story of a princess who forswears the world of men, and the prince who battles for her hand, has left generations of readers debating where tennyson stood in regard to the women's rights movement, then in its very early stages.