?The beggar Maid? by William Holman Hunt Original 1857 Woodcut Engraved by T. Williams First Edition Illustrated Moxon Tennyson Original 1857 first printing wood engraving ? Not a copy or a modern reprint New Conservation Framing including Custom 8ply Museum Mat UV Acrylic ? Wired and Ready to Hang. On its first publication the Moxon Tennyson was neither a critical nor commercial success. This was in part due to the juxtaposition of radically different artistic styles and in part to its high price. It was also known that the poet did not approve of several of the Pre-Raphaelite illustrations; he thought that they exercised far too much artistic license. Yet these intricate and daring designs were to have a dramatic impact on illustration. Between 1855 and 1870 the art of imaginative book and magazine illustration reached remarkable levels of quality and intensity. The Pre-Raphaelites were largely responsible for this transformation in English wood-engraving. They heralded a ?golden age? in which illustration was recognised as a stand-alone art form, no longer secondary to the text.