Author: [Luce, Morton]
Title: Thysia: An Elegy
Description: London: George Bell and Sons, 1909. 1909. London: George Bell and Sons, 1909. 1909. Good. - Small quarto [5-7/8 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide], dark gray cloth titled in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. There are several stains to the rear cover & there is a stain near the head of the spine with a small area of the surface rubbed away. 56 pages plus 2-page ad for the book. Illustrated with a brown-and-white frontispiece with a tissue guard. The endpapers & the verso of the flyleaf are somewhat darkened. There is offsetting from the frontispiece to the title & the tissue guard is creased. There is occasional light soiling. Good.

Fifth edition, enlarged.

Morton Luce [1849-1943] was a Tennyson scholar. His elegy "Thysia" is a sequence of 45 sonnets. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; SONNETS; ELEGY; THYSIA; MORTON LUCE; TENNYSON SCHOLAR; FRONTISPIECE.

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