LINTON, W.J. Thirty Pictures of Deceased British Artists engraved expressly for The Art-Union of London by W.J. Linton. Letterpress title-page, and 30 engraved plates (numbered I-XXX), with guard sheets. Bright original dark green gilt lettered cloth portfolio with all four linen ties intact, minor wear to head and tail. Slight marginal wear to several plates, and to a few of the guard sheets, but generally in very good clean condition. 4to (320mm x 250mm). 1860. ~ “These exhibit the engraver at his prime, and nothing could possibly be finer than the exquisite rendering of this series, which includes characteristic examples of Sir T. Lawrence, Constable, Gainsborough, Sir J. Reynolds, Wilkie, Blake, Bonington, Hogarth, Morland, Turner, and other masters of the English School of Painters. Three of them are drawn, as well as engraved, by Mr. Linton, namely, Death’s Door, after Blake (afterwards printed as the frontispiece to Jackson and Chatto’s History of Wood-Engraving), Nature, after Lawrence, and Niobe, after Richard Wilson.” Ref: Kitton, Fred G. “William James Linton, Engraver, Poet, and Political Writer.” The English Illustrated Magazine. 8 (April 1891).