LORD TENNYSON & HIS FRIENDS

Illustrated in Photogravure

by

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

and her son

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron

1893

Condition: Fair to Good- Please see photos which illustrate the issues.

Rare! I have found only 2 copies available selling at $9,500 and $7,500.

This copy is greatly discounted as to condition.

Measures 18" x 15"

Imprint

London: T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Square, 1893

Contents

[Leaf stating print-run] - List of Portraits - Introduction - Reminiscences - [Divisional title-plate] - [Photogravure Plates].

Responsibility Note

The divisional title-plate is signed as designed by W.A. Smith. Most plates are not signed but carry the inscription, 'from life'. In his Introduction Mrs. Cameron's son records that his mother's photographs are here supplemented by his own but does not state which are his. Five plates carry the name of the source-artist G.F. Watts, R.A.: one, that of Chantrey.

Summary Note

The half-title is preceded by a leaf on which is printed, 'This Edition Is Limited To 400 Copies, Of Which 150 Are For Sale In The United States of America. This Copy Is Number 275'.

The first plate is a divisional title-plate; the rest are all portraits captioned with the name of the sitter. They show Alfred Lord Tennyson (4 plates), Arthur Hallam, Lady Tennyson, Carlyle, Browning, Gladstone, Herschel, Hallam Lord Tennyson, Lionel Tennyson, Mrs. Cameron, G.F. Watts, James Spedding, Darwin, Longfellow, Dr Jowett, Dr Butler, Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie, Dean Bradley, James Russell Lowell, the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, W.E.H. Lecky and Henry Irving as 'Becket'.

NOTE: 3 MISSING plates, Watts drawing of Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle and Henry Irving as “Becket. The portrait of Tennyson titled "The Dirty Monk” is present but has been trimmed down at some time.

In the Introduction Mrs. Cameron's son quotes her words, 'When I have had these men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man'. Mrs. Ritchie reminisces, 'Mrs. Cameron's power was a peculiar one ... She had a directness and originality ... which she applied to other things than chemicals ... and also expected much from her sitters ... We trembled (or we should have trembled had we dared to do so) when the round black eye of the camera turned upon us, we felt what consequences, what disastrous waste ... might ensue from any passing shiver of emotion'.

Binding Note

20th-century brown cloth-covered boards with Gold Title and Floral Design Imprint.