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ALFRED TENNYSON, 1ST BARON TENNYSON (1809-92)

Maud and other poems

1861

RCIN 1085063

This copy of Tennyson’s poetry collection Maud and other poems contains perhaps his most famous work, The Charge of the Light Brigade. In the first edition of 1855, the famous line ‘Some one had blunder’d’ was omitted from the poem, but it was reinstated in this 1861 edition. This copy belonged to Queen Victoria, and bears her signature. Acquired by Queen Victoria

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