In memoriam A.H.H.

Tennyson's In memoriam A.H.H. in manuscript with gouache and gilt illuminations on parchment by Phoebe Anna Traquair.

Phoebe Anna Traquair was a painter and decorative artist. She was born in 1852 in Dublin and died in 1936.

Title from title page.

Illuminated leaves are dated from 1889-1892.

Title page signed by Tennyson following its completion by Traquair.

Manuscript text and illuminations on recto and verso of most leaves. 7 leaves precede and follow the manuscript text.

Rubenstein Library copy 1: Binding: Full modeled natural goatskin over boards; silver catches and clasps with Traquair's cipher on catches, dated 93; back cover also with cipher.

Rubenstein Library copy 1: Handbill for Traquair's paintings at the Catholic Apostolic Church in Edinburgh, tipped onto leaf [6].

Rubenstein Library copy 1: Obituary of Maude Stanley, who secured Tennyson's signature, pasted onto leaf [5].