TENNIEL, JOHN, illustrator. POLLOCK, ROBERT. The Course of Time, a Poem. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1857. 8vo, 211 x 149 mm. (8 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.), blue morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, turn-ins gilt, g.e., ivory watered silk liners, by Riviere & Son, joints and extremities rubbed, spine faded, upper inner hinge weak, slipcase (rubbed). Half-title, numerous wood-engraved illustrations by the Dalziel brothers, Edmund Evans and others, 10 after Tenniel, the remainder after Birket Foster and J. R. Clayton; bound in are SEVEN ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCHES AND TEN TRACINGS for the Tenniel illustrations, and a tracing and drawing for the final tailpiece vignette after Clayton, the tracings mounted and the drawings matted, all unsigned but presumably by Tenniel and Clayton respectively (cf. Percy Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, 1971 p. 110-111, for a description of Tenniel's working methods, which left much liberty of interpretation to the engravers).

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TENNIEL, JOHN, illustrator. POLLOCK, ROBERT. The Course of Time, a Poem. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1857. 8vo, 211 x 149 mm. (8 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.), blue morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, turn-ins gilt, g.e., ivory watered silk liners, by Riviere & Son, joints and extremities rubbed, spine faded, upper inner hinge weak, slipcase (rubbed). Half-title, numerous wood-engraved illustrations by the Dalziel brothers, Edmund Evans and others, 10 after Tenniel, the remainder after Birket Foster and J. R. Clayton; bound in are SEVEN ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCHES AND TEN TRACINGS for the Tenniel illustrations, and a tracing and drawing for the final tailpiece vignette after Clayton, the tracings mounted and the drawings matted, all unsigned but presumably by Tenniel and Clayton respectively (cf. Percy Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, 1971 p. 110-111, for a description of Tenniel's working methods, which left much liberty of interpretation to the engravers).