<I>The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate. Illustrated Edition.</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1879
name: label: Published by
content: R. Worthington & Co., American, 1885 - 1893
label: Printed by
content: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, American
label: Written by
content: Lord Alfred Tennyson, English, 1809 - 1892
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: A hardcover copy of The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate Illustrated Edition. The book has burgundy leather front and back covers. It is a leatherbound hardcover book with a sewn binding with gilded page edges. The front cover is embossed with brown, art deco style knotwork arranged into a rectangular frame. The back cover is identical. The faded orange book spine is embossed with six, horizontal, evenly spaced, dark brown bands. Between the first and third band is the shorted title of the book embossed in gold leaf text that reads, [TENNYSON'S / POEMS]. At the bottom is additional gold leaf text that reads, [ILLUSTRATED]. The interior of the book has black type on white pages. There is a thin, red decorative border around all of the pages. The book has glossy red marble pastedown and the first endpaper. The book features a selected poetry by Tennyson and three printed, black-and-white illustrations of etchings. There is pencil marginalia inscriptions on the Table of Contents (page IX), page 2, and on the last page, 455, and throughout the back free endpapers. On the top half of the first, white, front endpaper is cursive inscription, written in pencil, that reads [“Huts[?] at random scattered /And[inserted above] / each nest in bloom.” (?) / Tennyson’s first poetic / line, when he was five / years old; / "I hear a voice that's / speaking in the wind.” / First book of poems pub- / lished in South, by Jackson.]. On the next free endpaper are three inscriptions, the top and bottom ones by the same hand. The top inscription is handwritten in cursive pencil that reads [It was Thomas Cromwell / who destroyed the English Ab- / beys not Oliver. They lived / about 100 years apart.]. The middle inscription is handwritten in black ink and reads [Margaret J Langston[?] / from her Friend / Wm Ed Hayns[?] / October 6th 1880]. The bottom inscription is handwritten in cursive pencil and reads [Tennyson died Oct. 6, 1892. / Browning [died[ditto mark]] Dec. 12, 1889. / B's dedication of a selection of his poems to T. / To Alfred Tennyson, in poetry illustrious and consummate, in friendship noble and sincere.]. The book has 455 pages.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.8
objectType: label: Type
content: hardcover books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with leaf (metal) and leather on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 7 5/8 × 5 5/16 × 1 5/8 in. (19.3 × 13.5 × 4.1 cm)