Items by Dalziel (results page 1)

White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves. Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Aunt Silvia in her Domain Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-18

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Frontispiece: Alice and the White Knight Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“It was a glorious victory, wasn”t it?’ said the White Knight, as he came up panting. “I don’t know,” Alice said doubtfully. “I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.” “So you will [...]

Keywords: knights, alice, horses, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872 A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

GOOD WORDS FOR 1872 The border was engraved by one or other of the Dalziel brothers, and I suspect for this reason was placed inside my copy of their autobiography. I also made a version of this image [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-28

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Victorian vine-leaf page border A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

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.

Keywords: borders, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-28

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The black kitten with a ball of twine Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

The kitten has a ball of wool or a ball of string (“twine” in the text might be either, except that later it’s referred to as “worsted” and is thus wool.) But the black kitten had been finished with e [...]

Keywords: cats, animals, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Alice talks to the Kitten Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,” Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, “when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting y [...]

Keywords: people, furniture, chairs, relaxing, alice, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Into the Looking Glass Room Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I de [...]

Keywords: people, mirrors, alice, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-24

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Alice pushes through the mirror Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I de [...]

Keywords: people, mirrors, alice, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-31

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The Red Queen and the Red King Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

‘Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel – and here are t [...]

Keywords: people, chess, alice, games, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-05

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Alice holds the White King Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, ‘Why, you’ll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I’d far better help you, hadn’t I?’ B [...]

Keywords: alice, chess, games, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-15

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The White Knight is Sliding Down the Poker Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which ca [...]

Keywords: alice, chess, games, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-14

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