[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Private Press The Laws of the Navy

The Laws of the Navy

Letchworth: W

and the gilt cross decoration on the front cover

74: mezzotint of John Coke (Secretary of State to Charles I) by George White

with no blind stamped border to the covers

[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Private Press The Laws of the NavyTennyson, Alfred Lord. The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London: Macmillan, 1899. Frontispiece profile portrait of Tennyson. Bound in dark blue green morocco by Riviere & Son, with a large inlaid red flower to the front board, with details in gilt, and gilt stem along with smaller tooled bud. Five bands to spine with title in the second compartment. Gilt ruled turn ins with small leaves at corners, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.