Heading: (Cameron, Julia Margaret, photographer)
Author: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Title: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends. A Series of 24 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure from the Negatives of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron and H.H.H. Cameron. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Place Published: London
Publisher:T. Fisher Unwin
Date Published: 1893
Description:

[2], 16 pp. Introduction by H. H. Hay Cameron. With frontispiece design by W.A. Smith & 25 photogravure plates from photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron and H.H.H. Cameron, most from life, a few of painted portraits or sculptures; printed tissue guards. 45.6x36 cm (18x14¾"), original cloth decorated in gilt. No. 154 of 400 copies. First Edition.

Cameron knew Tennyson well and in 1860 had moved to Freshwater, Isle of Wight, to become his neighbor. After she took up photography in 1863, Tennyson, despite being described as "a reluctant model,” was persuaded to sit for her on many occasions. Cameron was later invited by the poet to illustrate his Idylls of the King (1874). This posthumous collection, a collaboration between Julia's youngest son Henry and the novelist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), includes four photogravures of Alfred Tennyson, including the 1865 photograph he is said to have liked best, dubbed “The Dirty Monk.” Other subjects include Tennyson's wife and sons, Julia Margaret Cameron herself, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Robert Browning, and Charles Darwin.

Wear and staining to cloth; hinges cracked, toning and soiling to preliminary leaves, marginal foxing, minor chipping to page edges, plates clean throughout; very good internally.