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| The Brothers Dalziel | ||||||||||
| The Brothers Dalziel, a firm of wood engravers, draftsmen, printers, and publishers, was established in 1835 by George Dalziel, who was born in 1815 and had moved to London from Newcastle. He was joined by his brother Edward, born in 1817, in 1840, and in 1857 they founded the Camden Town printing firm. They were eventually joined by other family members, including their siblings John, born in 1822, Thomas, born in 1823, and Margaret, born in 1819. The firm engraved works by many prominent artists, particularly Pre-Raphaelite illustrations, producing over 50,000 works and becoming the leading source of book illustrations in Victorian England. They were especially skilled in the use of light and shadow in their wood engravings of artists’ drawings, and their most notable works include Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, published in 1862, and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1866, and Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872. The firm ceased operations in 1893 due to the development of new photomechanical techniques. | ||||||||||
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