TENNYSON, IN MEMORIAM LECTURES BY PROF. HIRAM CORSON.  NANCY C. WOOD, (ca. 1892)

Blue hardcover with gilt title (HANDWRITTEN IN CURSIVE) that folds up from the top, with heavy gilt title & owner name (author) in gilt at the bottom.  Probable thesis on lectures by Prof. Hiram Corson, and the title page has written: Lectures, Prof. Corson. 

Thirty (unnumbered) pages total including yellow endpapers.  Cover good overall with rubbing/cracks at outer hinges & secure inner binding.  About 8-3/4 x 5-1/2.  Rare one-off item concerning an important professor in American history. 

WIKIPEDIA:  Corson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He held a position in the library of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1849-1856), was a lecturer on English literature in Philadelphia (1859-1865), and was professor of English at Girard College, Philadelphia (1865-1866), and in St. Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland (1866-1870). In 1870-1871 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Cornell University, where he was professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature (1872-1886), of English literature and rhetoric (1886-1890), and from 1890 to 1903 (when he became professor emeritus) of English literature, a chair formed for him. His papers are held at Cornell University.