Volume 1

Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates / designed and etched by R. Dagley.

  • Dagley, Richard, -1841.
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates / designed and etched by R. Dagley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    jected the work, and furnished the designs. It is to the kind contributors who have so amply and ably illustrated the subjects of my pencil, that I must attribute any success that may attend the work; and to them I embrace this opportunity of returning my most grateful acknowledgments. Of the motives of some for concealing their names, it does not become me to speak; though it is hardly possible but in many in- stances they may be recognised. “ By their fruits ye shall know them.” In the etchings, I have endeavoured to show the way in which a certain class of writing may be embellished, without incurring the expense of those laboured and highly finished engravings, which, while they exhibit the ta- lents and taste of our native artists, in many instances exclude the works they ornament from general purchase. On the part of the Publisher, every thing