The May queen
By: by Alfred Tennyson ; in illuminated borders designed by L. Summerbell.
Contributors: Summerbell, L.; George Berridge & Co.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford & Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Tennyson's May queen :
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

This title was also published ca. 1872 by George Berridge & Co.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

"Published with the author's permission"--T.p.

With printer's monogram chromolithographed on p. [1] at end.

Publisher's advertisements on leaves [1-3] at end printed within a decorative red rule border.

T.p. chromolithographed with a floriated and rusticated border.

Each leaf of text is lithographed in red and black on a white background with wide chromolithographed decorative and illustrative borders.

MASS copy 1: Bound in red-brown fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with an illustration of a young girl dancing with a scarf.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With presentation inscription dated 1875.

MASS copy 2: Bound in purple sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With bookseller's label: "G. G. Walmsley,  Bookseller,  50, Lord Street,  Liverpool.".