The wood engravers selfportrait tells the story of the imagemaking firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum. The study takes a creativecritical approach to illustration, alongside detailed investigation of print techniques and history. Five siblings ran the wood engraving firm Dalziel Brothers George, Edward, Margaret, John and Thomas Dalziel. Prospering through five decades of work, Dalziel became the major capitalist image makers of Victorian Britain. This book, based on AHRCfunded research, outlines the achievements of these remarkable siblings and uncovers the histories of some of the 36 unknown artisan employees that worked alongside them. Dalziel Brothers made works of global importance illustrations to Lewis Carrolls Alice books, novels by Charles Dickens, and landmark PreRaphaelite prints, as well as other, brilliant works that are published here for the first time since their initial creation.

Binding: Hardback;410 pages; Publisher: Manchester University Press (P648); Classification: ACV; Weight: 1962 g; Dimensions: 223 x 288 x 31

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