8vo. 16pp. With a half-title. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, some chipping/tearing to spine and upper wrapper. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to half- title.

The first edition, in original unsophisticated state, of Tennyson's impassioned elegy for the Duke of Wellington, published on the day of his funeral, 18th November 1852, and notable as the first independent publication issued by Tennyson following his appointment as Poet Laureate.