Original chromoxylographs / colour wood engravings  from William Houghton's British Fresh Water Fish, published in 1879.  The plates were drawn by A. F. Lydon and printed by Benjamin Fawcett published by William MacKenzie, London: 1879.  These were then reprinted the years following  by E.T.W Dennis of Scarborough,  as a Special Presentation Print from 'The Angler' until about 1886. The company later  'E.T.W.Dennis of Scunthorpe' issued postcards from 1901 . As  ETW Dennis of Scarboroughthey  published the first  British  picture post card in 1894. The firm, founded in 1870,  had a long and distinguished career as a printer and publisher, until June 2000
 . . . . . . . . . ..The pictures differ from the Houghton prints in the 'presented with the Angler ' in the bottom left corner but are in every other aspect identical. All double mounted and matted perfect condtion £25 inc

Comments

1. The reference, above, to ETW Dennis starting in postcards  Scunthorpe in 1901 is wrong , Dennis never operated from Scunthorpe but always Scarborough and the first picture card from there was in 1894
2. The above Dennis publication dates  are incorrect. The British Library Newspaper catalogue shows that "The Angler" was only published by Dennis from 1894 to 1900.
3. Mclean's book on Benjamin Fawcett , p41, says that  after Fawcett's death  in 1893 , E.T.W.Dennis bought the Fawcett blocks of Houghton's book "British Freshwater Fishes" (1879 and reissued 1884) at the auction of Fawcett's effects.
4.  Dennis makes a good job of the reprints using the original Fawcett colour blocks. It looks like Dennis used a lot of the original Fawcett inks and papers. Where Dennis has to use his own inks the result are not quite so good . 
5. Dennis's own colour printing capabilities were much more modest, only 3 colours at the most , using inexpensive inks.
    

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 Dennis, circa 1899/00 printed this court card for the firm of P&G Wells of Winchester (See the contemporary Journal "The Picture Postcard". page 4, July 1900)