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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 245
The Book. Versailles, and was created in 1768. It is told of Louis XV.that, being one day in this workshop, he found a pair ofspectacles, left as if in inadvertence on a printed sheet. Ashis sight was weakening, he took the spectacles and lookedthrough them. The sheet was a hyperbolical eulogium… … Fig. 132.—Wood block by Bewick, from his Fables, 1818. The fox and the goat. Who would believe that at the end of the century ofVoltaire and Rousseau a craftsman would be found desirous ofleading back the typographical art to its cradle, and of makingxylographs again, under the name of polytypes ?…
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