The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 383
at the commencement of the fifteenth century.Others hâve derived it from China, where it was in use in the year 1000 ofour era. Others, again, propound the opinion that the art of printing stuffs 3i6 ENGRA VING. by means of engraved blocks was employed in différent parts of Asia, towhich it had… … Fig. 258.— The Virgin and Infant Jésus. Fac-similé of a Wood-Engraving of the Fifteenth Century.(Bibl. Imp., Paris.) made its entrance iato Western Europe in the first half of the fifteenthcentury ; this being the earKest date at which we find engravings made mGermany, France, and the Low…
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