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1613185262
Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various. 1871. 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. XXVIII. Various Works. 1871'. The album includes approximately 1392 wood-engraved proofs, with many touched proofs. Following the title-page there is a contents page written by the Dalziels; this is useful, though by no means comprehensive, and not necessarily a reliable finding aid. It mostly refers to publishers, but occasionally to titles. The album contains numerous book and periodical illustrations of all sorts, including many commercial images, and diagrams of all sorts including for engineering. There are numerous narrative and literary illustrations, for fiction and poetry. There are natural history illustrations, comic images, religious and historical images (many of them for… (See Merlin record for full description)
Reproduced by permission of the artist. © Sylph Editions, 2016
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