The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 377
t the commencement of the fifteenth century.Others have derived it from China, where it was in use in the year 1000 ofour era. Others, again, propound the opinion that the art of printing stuffs 3i6 ENGRA VING. by means of engraved blocks was employed in diflferent parts of Asia, towhich it had… … Fig. 258.— The Virgin and Infant Jesus. Fac-simile of a Wood-Engraving of the Fifteenth Century. (Bibl. Imp., Paris.) made its entrance into Western Europe in the first half of the fifteenthcentury; this being the earliest date at which we find engravings made inGermany, France, and the Low…
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