Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape,& Tom Taylor — Limited Edition

£395.00

Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape,& Tom Taylor — Limited Edition

Name: Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape,& Tom Taylor — Limited Edition
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Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape, Tom Taylor — Limited "India Proof" Edition

Publication: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1881

Formatting: Folio, pp. [xii], 30 unnumbered leaves of plates, 30 unnumbered leaves of text.

Condition Report: Good. The publisher's original full vellum binding remains structurally sound but displays moderate age-related wear, including bumping to the corners, rubbing along the board edges, and general surface soiling, with a faint dampstain visible toward the lower edge of the rear cover. The gilt, black, and red decorative tooling remains distinct, though slightly rubbed in places. Internally, the text block is secure, featuring uncut, deckled edges that are uniformly age-toned. While the mounted India proof engravings are largely well-preserved and clean, the accompanying text pages and endpapers display scattered but distinct foxing, as is typical for this paper stock. A solid, highly presentable copy of a substantial and delicate volume.

Catalogue Note: Limited "India Proof" Edition, numbered 779 of 1,000 copies. This substantial folio was issued as a deluxe reiteration of Birket Foster and Tom Taylor’s collaborative work, which was first published in 1862.

For this edition, the thirty wood engravings were meticulously printed at the hand press directly from the original wood blocks onto delicate India paper, which was then carefully mounted onto heavy, uncut wove paper leaves. The highly influential Victorian wood-engravers, the "Brothers Dalziel," executed the plates after the original designs by British watercolourist Myles Birket Foster. The volume is further distinguished by its handsome, heavily decorated bevelled vellum binding.

Myles Birket Foster’s Pictures of English Landscape offers an evocative, highly sentimentalised celebration of nineteenth-century rural British life. Across thirty beautifully detailed plates, Foster captures idyllic, pastoral scenes of country mills, farmyards, watering places, and village churchyards. Each intricate wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers is accompanied by complementary verse composed by the playwright and poet Tom Taylor, creating a harmonious interplay between visual and literary romanticism that perfectly encapsulates the Victorian rustic ideal.

Book Condition: Good

Book Authors: Tom Taylor

Book Publisher: George Routledge and Sons

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Antiquarian

Genre: Poetry

Book edition: Limited Edition

Signed: No

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Book Publication Year: 1881

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Book Binding: Hardcover (Vellum)

Illustrator: Myles Birket Foster

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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