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Signed by the Illustrator Edmund J Sullivan "Maud" a Monodrama by Alfred Lord Tennyson. First Edition Limited to 520 copies all signed by the illustrator. Dated 1922.
tall 8vo., x, 104 pages, colour frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations, 12 b/w illustrations, 26 fine engraved head-pieces all by the renowned British illustrator Edmund J. Sullivan, Roigh cut page edges. Bound in the original quarter cream cloth with blue paper sides, with original white label pasted on the spine lettered in blue, lightly scuffed and bumped to corners. End papers browned. A generally VG clean copy of this fine production. Limited Edition of 520 copies, signed by the artist Edmund J. Sullivan. Maud, a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who was named poet laureate by Queen Victoria, was composed in 1854 and published in Maud and Other Poems in 1855. The poem's morbid narrator tells of his father's suicide following financial ruin. Lonely and miserable, he falls in love with Maud, the daughter of the wealthy neighbour who led his father into bankruptcy.
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