Descrizione

A fine early printing handsomely bound and presented. 8vo, beautifully presented in a deluxe binding of full pebbled brown morocco, the upper cover lettered in gilt within a triple-blind-ruled framework, the spine with raised bands triple-ruled in blind, the compartments with blind tooling at the centers, gilt lettered in one compartment, blind tooled turn-ins and a.e.g. [vi], 170 pp. A very fine copy in essentially pristine condition, the text clean and fresh with very little evidence of spotting, the binding solid, unworn, unfaded, a truly lovely copy

Edizione: a handsome printing finely bound. maud was commissioned by macmillan and co. and turned out to be an excellent vehicle for morris’ printing talents. the poem is considered by many to contain some of tennyson’s best lyrics (‘i have let her home’ and ‘come into the garden, maud’).