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Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various. 1857. 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. X. Various Works. 1857'. The album includes approximately 1377 wood-engraved proofs.There is a wide variety of book illustration, including to poetry, novels, science and travel literature. The prints listed after Browne (alias 'Phiz') include several illustrations to canonical 18th-century novels. There are numerous children's illustrations (both fiction and non-fiction), such as illustrations to fairytales. Individual prints include the following:Nos. 828-919: Scientific illustrations for an unidentified publication on Molluscs.Nos. 920-949: Illustrations to Milton's 'Comus'.Nos. 1161-1169: Illustrations for Tennyson's 'Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Lau… (See Merlin record for full description)
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