Oliver Goldsmith. DALZIELS' ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH. Ward and Lock, London, 1865.

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Description: DALZIELS' ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH. Illustrated by G. J. Pinwell Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Ward & Lock, London 1865 Illustrated hardback. 378pp + 2pp Adverts. Illustrated Hardback. This copy has at some recent date been professionally rebound in brown linen covered boards with with tan hide title panel let in to the head of the spine with gilt lettering. New paste downs and endpapers and gilt page edges all round Thge stock is tight and bright with no markings, inscriptions or foxing. The Brothers Dalziel were a highly productive firm of Victorian engravers founded in 1839 by George Dalziel (1815-1902) and his brother Edward Dalziel (1817-1905). They were later joined by John Dalziel and Thomas Dalziel (1823-1906). All were sons of the artist, Alexander Dalziel of Wooler in Northumberland. The Dalziel brothers worked with many important Victorian artists, producing illustrations for the burgeoning magazine and book market of the period. Among the artists they worked with were Arthur Boyd Houghton, Richard Doyle, John Gilbert, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and James McNeill Whistler. They cut the illustrations to Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense (1862); Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. They also produced independent ventures, most notably The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, (Routledge, 1864), illustrated by Millais, and contributed humorous cartoons to magazines such as Fun, which George and Edward acquired in 1865. Until the advent of photo-mechanical processes c 1880, they were pre-eminent in their trade. Examples of their work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This book contains The Vicar of Wakefield, The Traveller, The Deserted Village, The Haunch of Venison, The Captivity, Retaliation, Miscellaneous Poems, The Good-Natured Man, She Stoops to Conquer, and a sketch of the Life of Oliver Goldsmith by H W Dulcken, PhD. With one hundred pictures drawn by G J Pinwell, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Ref V4

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