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Title:

Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

Richard Redgrave

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

102 mm x 63 mm / 4"1 x 2"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP052

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Title:

Who hath not paused, while Beauty's pensive eye

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

George Housman Thomas

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

95 mm x 78 mm / 3"24 x 3"2

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP162

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Title:

"Why should I not."

Source Text:

Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm (Clowes & Sons 1862, London: Chapman & Hall 1862)

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

106 mm x 169 mm / 4"6 x 6"21

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Fiction [novel]

DMVI Code:

OF013

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Title:

Wi' kindly welcome Jenny brings him ben

Source Text:

Robert Burns, 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' 1786 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 61–71

Illustrator:

Charles West Cope

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

85 mm x 97 mm / 3"11 x 3"26

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP056

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Title:

Wife and I

Source Text:

Robert Williams Buchanan, 'Wife and I' 1862 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans), 6 (21 Jun 1862), 723–24

Illustrator:

Edward John Poynter

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

127 mm x 114 mm / 5"0 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

OWP020

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Title:

Wild flowers in the valley for other hands than mine

Source Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen' 1861 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 351–67

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

68 mm x 78 mm / 2"22 x 3"2

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP193

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Title:

"Will his eyes open?"

Source Text:

George Eliot, 'Romola' 1863 in Cornhill Magazine (Smith, Elder & Co., London: Smith, Elder & Co.), 8 (Jul 1863), 1–34

Illustrator:

Frederic Leighton

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

157 mm x 105 mm / 6"6 x 4"4

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ROM036

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Title:

Will Teague's House

Source Text:

Augustus Septimus Mayhew, 'Squire Mayduke's Daughter' 1862 in Illustrated London News [Christmas Supplement] (George Leighton, London: George Leighton), 41, 1180 (20 Dec 1862), 663–74

Illustrator:

Samuel Read

Engraver:

Mason Jackson

Size:

238 mm x 172 mm / 9"12 x 6"25

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Newspaper

DMVI Code:

ILN004

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Title:

Wisdom Unapplied:—And screamed the thunder back aloud,/ And faced the lightning from the cloud

Source Text:

Elizabeth Barrett, afterwards Browning, 'Wisdom Unapplied' 1829 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 329–31

Illustrator:

Joseph Wolf

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

102 mm x 140 mm / 4"1 x 5"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP073

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Title:

With how sad steps, O Moon

Source Text:

Sir Philip Sidney, 'Sonnet [With how sad steps, O Moon]' 1591 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 14–15

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

102 mm x 111 mm / 4"1 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA004

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Title:

With joy she views her plenteous reeking store

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

George Elgar Hicks

Engraver:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

89 mm x 114 mm / 3"16 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP086

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Title:

With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross

Source Text:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 215–61

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 108 mm / 3"16 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP126

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Title:

With saunt'ring step he climbs the distant stile

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP109

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Title:

"Yes, Lewis," she said; "quite satisfied."

Source Text:

Anon., 'The Christmas Wreaths of Rockton' 1862 in London Society (William Clowes, London: London Society), 2 (Christmas 1862), 65–71 [xmas no.]

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

114 mm x 185 mm / 4"16 x 7"9

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

LSF062

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Title:

"You didn't think it was so pretty did you?"

Source Text:

George Eliot, 'Romola' 1863 in Cornhill Magazine (Smith, Elder & Co., London: Smith, Elder & Co.), 7 (Jan 1863), 1–30

Illustrator:

Frederic Leighton

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

160 mm x 102 mm / 6"10 x 4"1

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

ROM020

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Title:

"You had better take care, Mr. Phillipson, how you fasten another mill-stone round your neck."

Source Text:

Anon., 'Captain Stauncy's Vow' 1862 in Leisure Hour (William Stevens, London: Religious Tract Society), 11, 548 (28 Jun 1862), 401–04

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

Thomas Robinson

Size:

153 mm x 132 mm / 6"1 x 5"6

Genre:

Fiction [story] / Miscellany [periodical]

DMVI Code:

CSV005

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Title:

You meaner beauties of the night

Source Text:

Sir Henry Wotton, 'To the Queen of Bohemia' 1568– 1639 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 54–55

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

102 mm x 70 mm / 4"1 x 2"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA020

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Title:

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear

Source Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen' 1861 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 351–67

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

103 mm x 89 mm / 4"2 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP180

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Title:

"Your name and college, Sir?"

Source Text:

Herbert Vaughan, pseud. [i.e. Vaughan Morgan], The Cambridge Grisette (Bradbury & Evans 1862, London: Tinsley Bros. 1862)

Illustrator:

Charles Samuel Keene

Engraver:

Joseph Swain

Size:

102 mm x 127 mm / 4"1 x 5"0

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Fiction [novel]

DMVI Code:

CG004

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Title:

"Your son Lucius did say—shopping."

Source Text:

Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm (Clowes & Sons 1862, London: Chapman & Hall 1862)

Illustrator:

John Everett Millais

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

106 mm x 167 mm / 4"6 x 6"18

Genre:

Fiction [novel] / Fiction [novel]

DMVI Code:

OF007