An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. (1863)
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, Berjeau, Jean Philibert, 1809-1891 · London : J. Lilly · leaf 246
this kind isthe Sanctus Bernardinus, in the Bibliotheque du Roi at Paris, therudest of all rude performances ; and which has at bottom an inscrip-tion of five lines, with the date 1#5*. This mode of finishing engravings in wood, appears to have beenpractised at Mentz, amongst other places, at an… … chap, ix.) WOOD ENGRAVING IN EUROPE, &c. 195 ten and three quarters, and contains numerous figures, which are,however, as ill drawn as possible. I suspect that both these prints,and some others of the kind that I have seen, may have been engravedby the same artizans who were employed by Fust and…
Printing · Wood-engraving
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