1858 Scarce First Edition - Our Favourite Fairy Tales with 300 illustrations by the Brothers Dalziel.
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Author : Henry W. Dulcken.
Title : Our Favorite Fairy Tales And Famous Histories: Told For The Hundredth Time by Henry W. Dulcken. Illustrated With Three Hundred Pictures, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, from Original Designs by Eminent Artists.
Publisher : London, Ward & Lock, 158 Fleet Street, 1858. First Edition.
Language : Text in English.
Size : 7 " X 6 " .
Pages : 414 pages + folding catalog bound within the last endpaper.
Binding : Attractive and very good original gilt decorated red cloth binding executed by Bone & Son in London (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed- as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining, light staining on "content" page - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on first endpaper).
Illustrations : Wonderfully illustrated with 300 illustrations engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
Estimate: (USD 300 - USD 400)
The book : Scarce and attractive edition of Our Favorite Fairy Tales And Famous Histories: Told For The Hundredth Time by Henry W. Dulcken. Illustrated With Three Hundred Pictures, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, from Original Designs by Eminent Artists.
The wood-engravers : The Brothers Dalziel was a prolific wood-engraving business in Victorian London, founded in 1839 by George Dalziel (1 December 1815 – August 1902), with his brother Edward Dalziel (1817–1905) from 1840. They were later joined by their sister Margaret (1819–1894), brother John (1822–1869), and brother Thomas Dalziel (1823–1906). Along with at least three older brothers and one younger, they were children of the artist Alexander Dalziel of Wooler in Northumberland.