[Photographic facsimiles of Phoebe Anna Traquair's illuminated manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese".]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,1806-1861.
Traquair, Phoebe Anna,binder.StEdNL
Moss, William Richardson,1845-1915,photographer.
[Edinburgh : s.n., 1897.]
The photographs of gelatin silver prints.
With leaf inserted in the end with MS text by Phoebe Anna Traquair, dated October 3rd., 1897, explaining that two complete copies were made of the manuscript, one for Lady Elcho, and one for Traquair's brother, William Richardson Moss (this copy is now in the National Library of the Scotland). The photographs in this volume were taken by Moss and and are smaller than the original MS and do not include the title page.
Bound in modeled goatskin binding by Phoebe Anna Traquair. The front board features an angel with a harp and the back board has her monogram and the date "1897".
Scotland Edinburgh.