Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899
Title:: The nobility of life, its graces and virtues, portrayed in prose and verse by the best writers. Selected and edited by L. Valentine. With twenty-four original pictures printed in colours, elaborate borders, headings and vignettes.
Published / Created:: London, Frederick Warne and Company; 1869.
New York, Scribner, Welford, and Co., 1869.
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., iii-viii, 192 p. ill. (part. mounted and col.) 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "Dalziel Brothers, printers."
Exhibition History:: Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:: Cooper, Hannah -- Autograph, 1868. | Burn & Co. -- Bookbinder. | Conduct of life -- Literary collections. | Johnston, T.B. -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Chromoxylographs. | Wood engravings.
Contributors:: Watson, John Dawson, 1832–1892, engraver. | Hundley, P., engraver. | Le Jeune, Henry, 1820–1904, engraver. | Green, Charles, 1840–1898, engraver. | Wolf, Joseph, 1820–1899, engraver. | Walker, Francis Sylvester, 1848–1916, engraver. | Houghton, Arthur Boyd, 1836–1875, engraver. | Selous, Henry Courtney, 1803–1890, engraver. | Buckman, Edwin, 1841–1930, engraver. | Pasquier, J.A., engraver. | Poynter, Edward John, Sir, bart., 1836–1919, engraver. | Mahoney, J., engraver. | Thompson, Alfred, engraver. | Edwards, M. Ellen (Mary Ellen), engraver. | Warren, Henry, 1794–1879, engraver. | Skill, Frederick, engraver. | Cooper, Alfred W., engraver. | French, H., engraver. | Wehnert, Edward Henry, 1813–1868, engraver. | Scott, Thomas, engraver. | Wood, Thomas W., fl. 1855–1872, engraver. | Zwecker, Johann Baptist, 1814–1876, engraver. | Dalziel, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus, 1823–1906, engraver.