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Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various: 1848: 1849:1850:1851. This Book was made up at the time the engravings shown in it were done.' The album includes approximately 1847 wood-engraved proofs. There is a wide variety of book and magazine illustration, including of literature, topography, travel, paintings and ancient sculpture. There are comical and satirical cartoons, calendar months and ornamental borders. There are numerous illustrations for children, including spelling books, ballad collections and fairy tales. There are commercial images of furniture and other items. This volume also has numerous illustrations, large and small, that relate to the Great Exhibition of 1851.Many of the proofs are touched with white. They often have brief pencil annotations, usually with dates, presumably of production and/or publication. On some, instructions for corrections appear to have been trimmed off. Most… (See Merlin record for full description)
Reproduced by permission of the artist. © Sylph Editions, 2016
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