Can anyone identify this typeface?

I’m trying to identify this typeface so that I can replicate a heavily damaged book cover. It’s from a series of books printed in the UK by Blackie and Son during the early 1920s. Interestingly, the “O” is treated in two different fashions within the same typeface.

Thanks for your help.
Paul

image: Tennyson cover.jpg

Tennyson cover.jpg

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This is printed from an engraving made from hand drawn art.

It looks like you have a pretty good copy of the original. If you want to duplicate the original as closely as possible, I would give the file to a graphic designer who is good with Illustrator or a similar software, and have them fix anything that needs fixing. Lend them the original to go by. Then have them furnish you with a file you can give to an engraver to make a new engraving. Ask the engraver what kind of file they would like (I’m no expert in this part of things, but probably a vector file).

You will have to get an engraving made to print the graphic elements anyway, so you might as well get an engraving with everything in it, including the “type.”

To clarify Geoffrey’s comments above. The wording you are reading is hand drawn/hand lettered and NOT a real typeface. The A’s are different, the S’s are different. etc. as every letter was individually drawn by the artist. You are looking at lettering, not type.

Rick