Binding by Arthur Hughes for Alfred Tennyson's "Enoch Arden" (1866), rear view (original) (raw)

Binding for Enoch Arden

Designed by Arthur Hughes

1866

Gilt interlace, produced using a brass die, on sand cloth; also issued in blue and green cloth

8¾ x 6¾ inches

A complex design on the rear board that uses emblematic details to reflect on Enoch's lost opportunity as a child of nature, rather than a man effectively lost at sea.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke.

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