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How to appreciate prints (1922)

Weitenkampf, Frank, 1866-1962 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 86

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piece of steel, square or rhom-boidal in section, and cut off obliquely at one end,producing a sharp point. The other end of this littlebar of steel is fastened in a wooden handle. Whileengraving, this handle rests against the palm of thehand, with the fingers on the steel bar, and the graveris… … < g < fe Hi 2 H I CA ^ H *■ LINE ENGRAVING 55 dagger in shape. The places scraped are then smoothedby going over them with the burnisher, similar inshape to the scraper, but blunt and highly polished,looking something like a narrow, pointed metal paper-knife. The very nature of this process…

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