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Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various. 1863. 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. XVII. Various Works. 1863'. The album includes approximately 1456 wood-engraved proofs. Following the title-page there is a contents page written by the Dalziels. This is useful though by no means comprehensive; it refers to some publishers, writers, periodicals or book titles.The album includes numerous book illustrations of all sorts. There are a large number of narrative images for books and periodicals (including 'London Society', 'Every Boy's Magazine', 'Good Words', 'The Cornhill Magazine' and 'The Churchman'). There are several imperialist and orientalist images. There are children's illustrations, religious images, natural history illustrations and decorative or technical desi… (See Merlin record for full description)
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