and Nimuë" may be considered to be what the French bibliographers term introuvable.
[The only known copy (1895) is now in the British Museum, supposed to be one of six original copies.—Editor.]
Poems, By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. With Engraving of Bust by Woolner, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and others. London: Edward Moxon, 1857, pp. 375, royal 8vo., red cloth, uncut.
This edition has no special or peculiar textual value, corresponding, apparently, in all respects, to the unadorned Eighth Edition, of 1853; but the illustrations, some of them executed by hands since so eminent and distinguished, give it considerable importance and significance. A copy of the earliest issue, dated as above, in the original cloth, entirely uncut, must be secured. Shortly after its appearance, Edward Moxon, long known as the poet's publisher, died, and the remainder of this edition was transferred to Messrs, Routledge and ruined by deteriorated impressions of the plates, and by a tawdry cloth binding, with gilt edges. Edward Moxon's original issue was published at a guinea and a half, Routledge's at a guinea. Mr. Ruskin bestows a high eulogium on these illustrations in the Appendix to his "Elements of Drawing" (London, 1857).
