Burn, Robert Scott · London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co. · leaf 152
GRAVERS AND EYE GLASS. Most wood-engravers, when at work, are accustomed to place the blockon a leather sand-bag, which at once affords a firm rest, and allows of the … SAND-BAG. block being turned with facility in any direction by the left hand, whilethe right is employed in cutting a line. Some, however, place the blockon a kind of frame, on which it is movable by means of a pivot. On thecomparative merits of these two modes of resting the block it is not easyto…
Drawing · Wood-engraving
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