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The Day Dream
(Twelve verses from)

Item date(s): 1995

Susan Allix  - (book artist)
Alfred (Lord) Tennyson  - (poem by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 170mm
Edition: #4/17


Place publication: London
Publisher: Susan Allix
Cat.
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
Tennyson's poem The Sleeping Beauty with its themes of dream, inspiration and escape, was published first in 1830 before he expanded it after the death of Arthur Hallam, renaming it The Day Dream. Susan Allix selected all of 'The Sleeping Palace' section of the poem and single stanzas from the sections 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'The Arrival' and 'The Departure' and two from 'The Revival'.

Exhibition notes:
Item 1 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections. Johannesburg Art Gallery. 25 August to 27 October 1996

Gaia: Dialogue between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by David Paton & Ciara Struwig. 16 September – 12 December 2025



Ref: GB/15091


   


   


   


   


   



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