Lot 219
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
'LYRIC POEMS'
Auction: Day One | Lots 1 to 229 | Wed 15th April 2026 from 10am
Description
John Lane, New York, 1900; together with, ‘THE BIRTH OF CHRIST’, 78/370, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925; TWO EDITIONS OF ‘HOBBY HORSE', THE CENTURY GUILD, October 1889 and January 1892, Chiswick Press; EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES, The New Gallery, 1898-99 (4)
Provenance
Provenance: From the collection of Arthur Halcrow Verstage (1875-1969)
Footnote
Arthur Halcrow Verstage was an architect who spent much of his career in the public sector. He was a student at the Royal Academy School of Architecture in the 1900s and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1902. By 1903 he was a student and assistant at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (later known as the Central School of Art and Design) in London where William Lethaby was principal and a great influence on him. He then oversaw the design of the new school in Southampton Row from 1905-8. From here he became an architect for London County Council and was involved with many London societies, and as a founding member of the Kelmscott Fellowship, a forerunner to The William Morris Society. His large and varied collection, amassed from 1902 to 1972, reflected his wide interest in the arts. His archive was purchased by The William Morris Society in 2005.