Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873
Title:
The works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. : illustrated by forty-four steel engravings and about two hundred woodcuts, from sketches in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen and other sources : with a history of his art-life by W. Cosmo Monkhouse.
Alternate Title(s):
Landseer's works
Published / Created:
London : Virtue and Company, [1877]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7660 .L36 1877+ Oversize

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Added engraved title page: Landseer's works : comprising forty-four steel engravings and about two hundred woodcuts.

Spine title: Landseer's works.

Engraving by Charles Mottram, Charles Cousen, John Outrim, Charles G. Lewis. John Cousen, Lumb Stocks, James Charles Armytage, S. Allen, Alfred Charles Alais, William John Alais, Henry S. Beckwith, Thomas Landseer, Edward Francis Finden, W. Finden, and Frank Holl; after Edwin Landseer.

Originally Issued in parts.

Date of publication from Eng. cat. of books.

Text is paged continuously through v. 1-4.

English catalogue of books, v. 3, p. 263

NSTC, 0520559

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original gilt- and black-stamped red cloth. Binder's label inside back cover of v. 1: Bound by HNM. Preliminaries misbound at end of v. 4.
Subject Terms:
Animal painters -- Great Britain | Animals in art | Zoological illustration -- Great Britain. | Virtue and company, Ltd. -- Publisher. | H.N.M. -- Binding.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1877. | Steel engravings -- 1877.
Contributors:
Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840–1901. | Armytage, James Charles, 1802–1897, engraver. | Allen, S. engraver. | Alais, Alfred Clarence, active 1878–1893 engraver | Alais, William John engraver. | Beckwith, Henry S., active 1835–1900 engraver. | Cousen, Charles, 1819–1889 engraver. | Cousen, John, 1804–1880 engraver. | Landseer, Thomas, 1795–1880. | Lewis, Charles George, 1808–1880 engraver. | Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857 | Finden, William, 1787–1852 | Holl, Frank, 1845–1888 engraver. | Lewis, Charles George, 1808–1880 engraver. | Mottram, Charles, 1817–1876 engraver. | Outram, J. (John), 19th cent. | Stocks, Lumb, 1812–1892 engraver.