8vo. viii, [2], 405pp, [1]. With a half-title. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, with light scuffing to boards. Light spotting to initial and terminal leaves.

A finely bound copy of Tennyson's (1809-1892) Idylls of the King, a series of twelve Arthurian narrative poems originally published between 1859 and 1885, which is widely considered his most ambitious poetic work.