Jun 02, 2011 - Sale 2249

Sale 2249 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DALZIEL BROTHERS. Dalziels' Bible Gallery. 62 mounted India woodblock proofs engraved by the Dalziels after Leighton, Armstead, Sandys, Poynter, Solomon, Houghton, Watts, Burne Jones, and others. Large folio, publisher's decorated cloth, defective, other wear to extremities; dampstaining to lower outer corners, affects margins but not captions or plates. sold as is. New York: Scribner and Welford, 1881
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This specially-commissioned bible took roughly twenty years to create and is one of the greatest illustration projects of the Victorian era. The plates were engraved by the Dalziel brothers at their Camden Press in London. Copies are scarce and most bear the George Routledge, London imprint. Few copies of the Scribner and Welford have come to market.