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Songs and poems / Alfred Lord Tennyson.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peter Pauper Press.
- English poetry--19th century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mount Vernon, New York : The Peter Pauper Press, [1946?]
- Contents:
- The voyage
- The brook
- Sweet and low
- O let the solid ground
- The Lady of Shalott
- A farewell
- Sir Galahad
- Come Not
- Locksley Hall
- The revenge
- Low, lute, low
- From Maud
- Ask me no more
- The Lotos-Eaters
- Sweet is true love
- The merman
- The mermaid
- The dying swan
- Tears, idle tears
- O that 'twere possible
- Mariana
- A rose
- You ask me why
- The poet's song
- Late, late, so late
- The charge of the light brigade
- Flower in the crannied wall
- In the Valley of Cauteretz
- Now sleeps on the crimson petal
- O swallow, swallow
- Oenone
- Sonnet
- If love be love
- Go not, happy days
- Of old sat freedom
- The eagle
- Break, break, break
- Marriage morning
- The beggar maid
- Morte D'Arthur
- Our enemies have fallen
- Turn, fortune
- Milkmaid's song
- Rain, rain and sun
- The sailor boy
- The splendor falls
- Song
- Home they brought her warrior dead
- From a dream of fair women
- Thy voice is heard
- The higher pantheism
- Duet
- From in memoriam
- Crossing the bar.
- Notes:
- Title within red and blue border; title vignette in blue
- Title within red and blueborder; title vignette in blue. Bound in decorated gray boards, white paper label on spine, top edges stained pink.
- "The text of this book set in Baskerville types, and has been printed on a specially-made Peter Pauper Press paper" -- Colophon.
- Issued in a blue slipcase with a reproduction of the title page but these borders are only in red.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Cited in:
- Bennett, Paul A., ed., Recalling Peter (NY : Typophiles, 1964), page 59
- Donnelly & Dobkin, 520 (page 143)
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Poems. Selections. Songs and poems.
- OCLC:
- 40067471
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