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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 243
tense blacks into fine sheets.The great publishers trusted that better days would leave tomore clever men the task of perfecting the invention. Wood engraving, as stated, owes its revival and almostperfection in England to Thomas Bewick, who published hisfirst work in 1770, his General History of… … Fig. 130.—Experiment in engraving in relief by Moreau le Jeune forRenouards edition of Lafontaines Fables. faithful representations of country life. From the Fables, pub-lished in 1818, we reproduce an illustration, also a specimen fromthe second volume of the British Birds. He, with his…
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