C1840. Steel-engraving. C1840. 230mm by 150mm (platemark) 440mm by 295mm (sheet). India-laid proof. Pencil annotation just below the image. Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (1797 - 1875) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology.....
C1860. Steel-engraving. C1860. 270mm by 175mm (sheet). An evangelical Christian and social reformer, Wilberforce dedicated himself to the 'suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners'. He entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years.....
C1870. Mezzotint. C1870. 285mm by 235mm (image). Robert Williams (1811-1890) was a politician and tractarian sympathiser. Proof before letters.One very small mark in image. Faint soiling in margins, crease to lower left corner of the sheet."