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The illustrated London drawing book ... (1853)

Burn, Robert Scott · London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co. · leaf 149

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fig m. WOOD-ENGRAVER AT WORK. … SECTION V.WOOD-ENGRAVING. GOD-ENGRAVING is the art of cutting-figures on wood, for the purpose of theirbeing printed upon paper. It differs inprinciple, and in its mode of operation,from engraving on copper and steel : thelines which form the impression being leftprominent in the wood; while in…

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