1865 Atalanta in Calydon. A Tragedy.

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of Victorian era poet, playwright and novelist Algernon Charles Swinburne's mid nineteenth century tragic poem, in the original cloth binding designed by Swinburne's friend, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

An excellent example of the Victorian 'Greek' tragedy, a genre of poetry inspired by the forms, contents, and styles of Attic tragedy, drawing on the rhymes and metres of Ancient Greek literature.

With the armorial bookplate of T. M. Bruce Gardyne to the front pastedown.

A lovely copy of a lesser known work from a celebrated member of the Decadent and pre-Raphaelite movements.