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Album with hand-written title page: 'India-Proofs of Wood-Engravings by The Brothers Dalziel. "Wood's Natural History". (1861: 1862: 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. XVI. Wood's Natural History. 1861-63'. The album includes approximately 1453 wood-engraved proofs which have been pasted in. There is a small amount of manuscript annotation in a contemporary hand, including ticks and abbreviated notes, and some subjects, titles or numbers, often written on the proofs themselves. There is also numbering in a more recent hand. But the most comprehensive annotations in the album are the titles / captions, artists and page numbers added by Arthur Aspitall in the British Museum in the mid twentieth century.The illustrations in this album were all for volumes of J. G. Wood's "The Illustrated Natural History" (London: Routledge, 1861-63), is… (See Merlin record for full description)
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