Roland Cashel Image: Free Image & Ebook

Charles Lever; an Irish author, began writing the book "Roland Cashel" in 1850 and it published out of London in and around 1858. Now I know it is very unusual of me to go into this much detail but Charles Lever the author was considered an absolute joy in the parlor because of his stories and I found great joy in his jubilant writing. I have found for you a wonderful free Ebook copy of the story below that shows some of the images done by Phiz. Note this image I bring you today is a copy of the inner right cover page of the original London book from whence this delightful illustration comes. The reason it looks very grey is the actual print is a rectangular plate that has horizontal lines going through the the entire image with the book title and such; read on for reasons why. You can see that below. I took the best part of the image out for you.

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Now the interesting story of our Illustrator Phiz. Hablot Knight Browne (12 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist, famous as Phiz, illustrator of books by Charles Dikens, Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth.

Most of Browne's "Phiz's" work was etched on steel plates because these yielded a far larger edition than copper. Phiz was annoyed at some of his etchings being transferred to stone by the publishers and printed as lithographic reproductions. Partly with the view to prevent this treatment of his work, he employed a machine to rule a series of lines over the plate in order to obtain what appeared to be a tint; when manipulated with acid this tint gave an effect somewhat resembling mezzotint, which at that time it was found practically impossible to transfer to stone.  You can see that in the original image above left. How is that for pre-copyright infringement protection!

E-Book

Roland Cashel By: Charles Lever Illustrations by Phiz. Although this is a copy of the reprint version printed in Boston 1907, It still shows some of the adorable illustrations done by Phiz that have a witty charm to them. The book is worth a peruse because it has wonderful humor and charm.  This free e-book comes to you from PROJECT GUTENBERG www.gutenberg.org
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