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A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads

1865
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Object Information
  • Title: A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads
  • Illustrator: Myles Birket Foster (British, North Shields, Northumberland 1825–1899 Weybridge, Surrey)
  • Illustrator: William Percival Skelton (British, 1813–1900)
  • Illustrator: John Callcott Horsley (British, London 1817–1903 London)
  • Illustrator: Edward Duncan (British, London 1803–1882 London)
  • Illustrator: George Housman Thomas (British, London 1824–1868 Boulogne)
  • Illustrator: Edward Henry Corbould (British, London 1815–1905 London)
  • Illustrator: Samuel Palmer (British, London 1805–1881 Redhill, Surrey)
  • Illustrator: Charles West Cope (British, Leeds 1811–1890 Bournemouth)
  • Illustrator: William James Grant (British, 1829–1866)
  • Illustrator: Edwin Weedon (British, 1819–1873)
  • Illustrator: George Elgar Hicks (British, Lymington, Hampshire 1824–1914 Odiham, Hampshire)
  • Illustrator: Harrison William Weir (British, Lewes 1824–1906 Appledore, Kent)
  • Illustrator: William Harvey (British, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1796–1866 Richmond, Surrey)
  • Illustrator: David Henry Friston (British, 1820–1906)
  • Illustrator: George Haydock Dodgson (British, Liverpool 1811–1880 London)
  • Illustrator: Abraham Solomon (British, London 1823–1862 Biarritz)
  • Engraver: Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)
  • Publisher: Ward, Lock & Tyler (London)
  • Printer: Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)
  • Published in: London
  • Date: 1865
  • Medium: Illustrations: color wood engravings
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 15/16 x 1 5/8 in. (22.9 x 17.7 x 4.1 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993
  • Object Number: 1993.1081
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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