(CAMERON JULIA MARGARET) Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Friend

Sale 2135 - Lot 30

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Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500

(CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET.) Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his Friends. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Introduction by H. H. Hay Cameron. A series of 25 photogravure portraits that includes Tennyson, Carlyle, Browning, Herschel, Longfellow, Darwin and Cameron herself, and a frontispiece; sheet size 17 1/2x14 inches (44.4x35.5 cm.). Folio, gilt-lettered blue morocco, rebound, scuffed; hinges reinforced, edges of plates soiled, final plate creased; with the original, printed overlays. one of 400 numbered copies. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893

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An homage to the great Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron produced by her son, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, who wrote that he wished the public "to see the spirit in which my mother worked."