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Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work: Various: 1873. 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. XXXI. Various Works. 1873'. The album includes approximately 814 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 publishers and titles in the albums, although it is not necessarily a reliable finding aid. Print numbers were accidentally duplicated from 560 to 599; the duplicated numbers have been re-named 560a, 561a, etc. (although the new numbers will not show on the photographs attached to the records). The album contains numerous book and periodical illustrations of all sorts, including many commercial images. There are numerous illustrations to ficti… (See Merlin record for full description)
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