Chronicles Ancient (2 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In this seemingly scarce issue, Tennyson is not credited and there is no date though his name is beneath the captions from the poem that accompany each illustration. Contains as usual nine fine full page illustrations by Doré. The front free endpaper has been re-attached. There is no foxing to the illustrations or the text. Tissue guards present. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titling. A bit worn, minor marks, and a little fraying here and there, some sections cracking or week. Very good. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".