Edward Dalziel

Born in 1817, Edward Dalziel was an English engraver and one of the founding members of the Dalziel Brothers, a highly productive Victorian wood-engraving firm established with his brother George in 1839. The business later expanded to include other brothers from the Dalziel family, who were sons of the artist Alexander Dalziel of Wooler, Northumberland.

The firm became closely associated with the boom in illustrated publishing in 19th-century Britain. Through its engraving work, the Dalziel Brothers collaborated with many leading artists and helped produce images for books, magazines, and gift editions that reached a wide readership.

Edward Dalziel died in 1905. Although he is less widely remembered by general readers than some of the writers and artists he worked with, his craft was part of the visual machinery that gave Victorian literature much of its popular appeal.