"Queens of Society", by Grace and Philip Wharton, illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle and the Brothers Dalziel, published by George Routledge, London, 1870, Second Edition ['A New Edition'].

Contents:

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Sarah Duchess of Marborough
Madame Roland
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
Madame De Sevigne
Sydney Lady Morgan
Jane Duchess of Gordon
Madame Recamier
Lady Hervey
Madame De Stael
Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi
Lady Caroline Lamb
Anne Seymour Damer
La Marquise Du DeffandMary Countess of Pembroke
La Marquise De Maintenon

Charles Altamont Doyle (25 March 1832 - 10 October 1893) was an English Victorian artist who was the father of Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes. His brother was the artist Richard Doyle, and his father was the artist John Doyle.

The Brothers Dalziel were a highly productive firm of Victorian engravers founded in 1839 by George Dalziel (1815-1902) and his brother Edward Dalziel (1817-1905). They were later joined by John Dalziel and Thomas Dalziel (1823-1906). All were sons of the artist, Alexander Dalziel of Woller in Northumberland.The Dalziel brothers worked with many important Victorian artists, producing illustrations for the burgeoning magazine and book market of the period. Among the artists they worked with were Arthur Boyd Houghton, Richard Doyle, John Gilbert, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and James McNeill Whistler. They cut the illustrations to Edward Lear's 'Book of Nonsense' (1862); Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass'.

They also produced independent ventures, most notably 'The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ', (Routledge, 1864), illustrated by Millais, and contributed humorous cartoons to magazines such as 'Fun', which George and Edward acquired in 1865. Until the advent of photo-mechanical processes ca. 1880, they were pre-eminent in their trade. Examples of their work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At the end of the nineteenth century they collaborated on an autobiographical summary of their work "The Brothers Dalziel, A Record of Work, 1840-1890" published by Methuen.

Katherine Thomson (1797-1862) (aka Byerley, also as Mrs A. T. Thomson, pseudonym Grace Wharton) was an English writer, known as a novelist and historian.

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Embossed hard boards, original blue cloth decorated in black and gold (a little wear, mostly spine ends and corners); 4.3/4" x 7.1/4"; cream-brown endpapers are creased at the hinges; inscription dated 1873 is on the back of frontispiece; 575 pages and 16 plates; many text decorations; very good binding and condition. [nlhb]