May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 517

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD. Timbuctoo. A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement 1829. As contained in Prosusiones Academicae Praemis Annuis Dignatae . . . 8vo, disbound, sewn into later plain brown wrappers. Cambridge: John Smith, 1829

Additional Details

first edition, first issue. Tennyson's second published work and first appearance in print under his own name. He left Trinity College without taking his degree but was made an Honorary Fellow in 1869.
with--Poems by Two Brothers. Second, edition, though the first on large paper, with additional poems. 8vo, cream cloth, soiled, pencil marks on Contents leaf and ownership signature of Tennyson scholar Ryals. 142/300 copies. London, 1893