Pictures to print: the nineteenth century engraving trade

The Victorian middle classes could rarely afford original pictures for their crowded walls so they purchased prints of eg. a Landseer, often ravishingly hand-coloured. Not only has Dyson chronicled the trade in prints, the flowering of an art form, he explains the techniques, the inks, the paper, and the machinery of production. The Ross and McQueen records, the source of much of our knowledge of print in the period, form an appendix.