The Library Edition of the Works of Alfred Tennyson. In Seven Volumes, published at half-a-guinea each, London: Strahan and Co., 1872, large 8vo., cloth.
The first volume contained two additional early sonnets,—"The Bridesmaid," and "Alexander," published, apparently, for the first time. In this edition a further selection was made from the "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical" of 1830, and some rejected pieces were reinstated. In the third volume were included and acknowledged for the first time, one of the Examiner poems, "The Third of February, 1852," and the second of the two Punch poems of 1846, under the new title of "Literary Squabbles." The latter was accompanied by a reprint, considerably altered, of the lines originally contributed to Once-a-Week, "On a Spiteful Letter."
The sixth and seventh volumes contained the complete "Idylls of the King" (the three series arranged in their proper sequence), with some concluding lines, in blank verse, "To the Queen," published for the first time.
1873-1874.
Small Red-cloth Popular Edition of the Works of Alfred Tennyson. In
