The Doré Gift Book of Illustrations
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The Doré Gift Book of Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King (Gustave Dore's illustrations of Tennyson's Idylls
[London: Moxon, Son &co., 1878]
This deluxe edition points to the peak of the Arthurian revival in Victorian England, and of the history of printing. It contains the first (four) Idylls as Tennyson envisaged them: two 'angelic' females (Enid and Elaine) and two 'sinners' (Vivien and Guenevere).
Frontispiece: A portrait of Tennyson and characters from Idylls of the King.
Title Page: The title of the Doré Gift Book.
