Auction Name: 2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 45185

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/6323*45185

[Algernon Charles Swinburne, his copy]. Alfred Tennyson. Maud, and Other Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1855.

8vo. Original purple-brown calf gilt, edges marbled.

FIRST EDITION. Algernon Charles Swinburne's copy with his booklabel and a gift inscription from his mother, Jane Henrietta Swinburne, on an early flyleaf: "Algernon C. Swinburne / from JHS / Janry 15th 1856."

Condition: Spine chipped at head; spine label lacking; chipped, scuffed, and other edgewear; front hinge repaired; rear hinge starting. Glue residue to front free endpaper verso where Smith bookplate was attached. Final two leaves of text (L4 and M1) and advertising leaf (M2) excised, including "The Charge of the Light Brigade" which appears on pages 151-154 (L4 and M1). Light thumbsoiling and a few scattered spots; a few short marginal tears; large fold on page with gift inscription, not touching inscription.

References: Wise 58.

Provenance: Algernon Charles Swinburne (gift inscription, bookplate); Harry Bache Smith, lyricist and composer (bookplate laid-in); sold Parke Bernet, 20 February 1950, lot 503; Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplate).

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