Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 416
raving blocks for book illustration inoutline, to be filled in afterwards in colour, led the way toline engraving on wood, where the pure line work was leftuncoloured, and soon after became a style by itself, whichultimately, as the art of black and white, was sought afterand prized for its own… … Fig. 312.—Page from the Caxton LMiie Missal. 398 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. The invention was soon after applied to the productionof the xylographic or block-printed books, which wereprinted in colour from the block. The colour was spreadon the block, a sheet of paper was placed on the top, andthen rubbed…
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