This beautiful, antique edition of The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson was published by Macmillan in 1902. So the book is from the early Edwardian era. The book is half bound in vellum with delicate gilt floral decoration to the spine.
It's in very good condition with just light marking and soiling to the boards - there is a small stain near the top left corner of the front board. The corners are lightly bumped and the spine shows faint discolouration.
Inside, the endpapers are beautifully marbled and someone has written T15 in the top corner of the front pastedown. There is an ex libris name plate glued to the verso of the FFEP, along with some pencilled notes. The pages are clean and bright with light age toning and sporadic foxing. A few page edges are jagged - they appear to have been separated by hand by a previous reader (sometimes books were released with uncut pages).
Dimensions approximately 19.3cm x 13cm x 4.3cm.
The book will arrive hand wrapped in patterned wallpaper and ribbon.
I use a range of eco friendly, 100% recyclable jiffy bags and boxes, and whenever possible I use brown paper tape. The green bubble wrap is oxo-degradable and the clear bubble wrap is 100% recyclable. I also reuse boxes when I feel it's appropriate (if the boxes are sturdy enough).