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1613149938
Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various. 1872. This Book was made up at the time the engravings shown in it were done.' Half-bound in brown leather and gilt; lettering on spine reads 'Wood-Engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. XXX. Various Works. 1872'. The album includes approximately 913 wood-engraved proofs, with many touched proofs. Following the title-page there is a contents page written by the Dalziels; this provides an extremely useful reference for the publishers whose illustrations are in the albums, although it is not necessarily a reliable finding aid. The album contains numerous book and periodical illustrations of all sorts, including many commercial images. There are many narrative and literary illustrations, for works of fiction, poetry and anthologies. The volume also contains animal illustrations, comic images, religious, imperialist and some historical and musical images. Trave… (See Merlin record for full description)
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