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Front Cover, The Brothers Dalziel
Handsome dark blue book with gold lettering. |
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Title Page, The Brothers Dalziel
The Brothers Dalziel [more...]
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The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872
GOOD WORDS FOR 1872 [more...]
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Victorian vine-leaf page border
A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design. [more...] |
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Fairy Dance.
Fairy Dance. By W. E. Frost, R.A. From a book of poems by the Rev. T. J. Judkin. [more...]
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Scotland.
From “An overland journey to the Great Eghibition of 1851” By Richard Doyle. Published for the Brothers Dalziel by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. [more...] |
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King Lear and Fool in a Storm.
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples.” [more...] |
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Lear Fantastically Dressed with Flowers
By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S., By permission of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons. [more...] |
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The Song of Bethlehem
“On wheels of light, on wings of flame, The glorious hosts of Zion came.” [more...]
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Cleopatra
A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in [...] [more...] |
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Lady of Castle Windeck
“Messrs. D. Appleton, of New York, requested us to provide a set of illustrations to the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. They wished for a large number by Birket Foster, who at that time was at the very height of his popularity for black and white work. Out of something like one hundred pictures he gave us thirty-six, all of which are beautiful [...] [more...] |
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Cain and Abel.
A naked man lies dead in the background, his genitals conveniently hidden by a cloth. In the foreground, a man wearing only an animal-skin scurries barefoot away through the rocks. The [...] [more...] |
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