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1863 Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape (30 Dalziel Engraved Plates)
1863 Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape (30 Dalziel Engraved Plates)
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Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape,
Engraved by the Brother's Dalziel
With Pictures in Words by Tom Taylor.
Routledge, Warne and Routledge, London, 1863. First Edition. 4to, handsome fine binding, green calf with gilt spine, gilt dentelles, gilt to all page edges, The volume measures approximately 25.5 x 21.5 cm, the volume consists of six preliminary leaves, followed by 30 plates and poems to accompany each.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy handsomely bound. The leather binding is in very good condition with fractional rubbing in a few places but generally very good, hinges secure with no cracking, endpapers very good, bookplate to inside front board, all contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout with perhaps the odd spot on the odd page, all plates present and in good order. Overall a very good first edition in very good condition. A handsome volume.
Birket Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the wood-engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News. On leaving Landells' employ, he continued to produce work for the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated London Almanack.
Foster also found work as a book illustrator and, during the 1850s, trained himself to paint in watercolours. His illustrations of Longfellow s Evangeline and books of poetry by other contemporaries were a great success, and he quickly became a successful artist in watercolours. Birket Foster became an Associate of the "Old" Watercolour Society (later the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1860 and exhibited some 400 of his paintings at the Royal Academy over more than 2 decades. Birket Foster travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice. After the year 1858 Birket Foster accepted very few engagements for black and white book illustrations, as he was now turning his attention almost solely to water-colour painting. He had, however, agreed with the Dalziel Brothers to make a series of drawings larger than usual to be thoroughly representative of rustic English scenery, and after a lapse of nearly five years Messrs. Routledge and Co. Published Birket Foster's Picture of English Landscapes in 1863. The illustrations were beautifully engraved by the Dalziels and were accompanied by verses by Tom Taylor.
Engraved by the Brother's Dalziel
With Pictures in Words by Tom Taylor.
Routledge, Warne and Routledge, London, 1863. First Edition. 4to, handsome fine binding, green calf with gilt spine, gilt dentelles, gilt to all page edges, The volume measures approximately 25.5 x 21.5 cm, the volume consists of six preliminary leaves, followed by 30 plates and poems to accompany each.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy handsomely bound. The leather binding is in very good condition with fractional rubbing in a few places but generally very good, hinges secure with no cracking, endpapers very good, bookplate to inside front board, all contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout with perhaps the odd spot on the odd page, all plates present and in good order. Overall a very good first edition in very good condition. A handsome volume.
Birket Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the wood-engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News. On leaving Landells' employ, he continued to produce work for the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated London Almanack.
Foster also found work as a book illustrator and, during the 1850s, trained himself to paint in watercolours. His illustrations of Longfellow s Evangeline and books of poetry by other contemporaries were a great success, and he quickly became a successful artist in watercolours. Birket Foster became an Associate of the "Old" Watercolour Society (later the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1860 and exhibited some 400 of his paintings at the Royal Academy over more than 2 decades. Birket Foster travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice. After the year 1858 Birket Foster accepted very few engagements for black and white book illustrations, as he was now turning his attention almost solely to water-colour painting. He had, however, agreed with the Dalziel Brothers to make a series of drawings larger than usual to be thoroughly representative of rustic English scenery, and after a lapse of nearly five years Messrs. Routledge and Co. Published Birket Foster's Picture of English Landscapes in 1863. The illustrations were beautifully engraved by the Dalziels and were accompanied by verses by Tom Taylor.
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