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52) Poems and Pictures: A Collection of Ballads, Songs and other Poems, Illustrated by English Artists.

London 1846

A second edition of the â??Balladsâ? was published in the early 1860s, followed in 1867 by a smaller selection with only sixteen of the original fifty engravings called: â??Jewels Gathered from Painter and Poet. A Selection of Poems illustrated by the First Artists.â?

This example of  a  mass-produced picture book for the inflationary Victorian book market contains utterly uninspired illustration work and lots of merely mechanical engraver-work. Linton was responsible for the predominant part of the hasty engravings. When he critized the slavery of facsimile reproduction work in his tracts on xylography, he knew what he was talking about.