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Album with hand-written title page: '1856. India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. General Work - Various: 1856. 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. VIII. Various Works. 1856'. The album includes approximately 1220 wood-engraved proofs.There is a wide variety of book illustrations, including to poetry, religious works, architecture, travel, literature and history. There are numerous children's illustrations (both fiction and non-fiction), including spelling books and fairytales. There are topographical illustrations, advertisements (e.g. for a stationers) and illustrated title pages to non fiction books such as a cookery book. There are several diagrams, and comic and decorative wood engravings.Individual prints include the following:Nos. 1-6: Dalziel Brothers after Frederick Richard Pickersgill. Six large scale wo… (See Merlin record for full description)
Reproduced by permission of the artist. © Sylph Editions, 2016
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