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The Life of Man, Symbolised by the Months of the Year in a series of illustrations and Pourtrayed in their Seasons and Phases with Passages Selected from Ancient and Modern Authors

1866
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  • Title: The Life of Man, Symbolised by the Months of the Year in a series of illustrations and Pourtrayed in their Seasons and Phases with Passages Selected from Ancient and Modern Authors
  • Editor: Richard Pigot (British, active 1860s)
  • Artist and engraver: John Leighton (British, 1822–1912 Middlesex)
  • Engraver: John Williamson (British, active 1839–67)
  • Engraver: Charles Green (British, 1840–1898 Hampstead)
  • Engraver: Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839–93)
  • Engraver: James Davis Cooper (British, London 1823–1904 London)
  • Engraver: Woods (British, active mid-19th century)
  • Engraver: George Pearson (British, active 1850–1910)
  • Engraver: (Thomas) Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (British, Attercliffe, Sheffield 1799–1869 London)
  • Engraver: Joseph Swain (British, Oxford 1820–1909 London)
  • Publisher: Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer
  • Printer: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. (British, London)
  • Dedicatee: Richard Monckton Milnes (British, London 1809–1885 Vichy)
  • Published in: London
  • Date: 1866
  • Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
  • Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 9 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (28.6 x 23.2 x 3.5 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
  • Object Number: 46.78.2
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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