Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 130
, the cuts in which were allprobably made here. Wood engravings in England gave way gradually in theseventeenth and the earlier half of the eighteenth centuriesbefore the advancing tide of line engraving, but in the latterhalf of the eighteenth century Thomas Bewick came to giveit a new impetus.… … [To face p. 110. ILLUSTRATIONS. Ill I revival of wood cutting, both here and abroad, is generally ; put down to his influence. Bewick worked on an entirely different principle to that | of any of his predecessors. He gave up imitating the black I line of the metal engraver and used the white line…
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