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An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving : upon copper and in wood, with an account of engravers and their works, from the invention of chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the time of Marc' Antonio Raimondi (1816)

Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, Beckford, William, 1760-1844, former owner. CMalG, Bromley, William, 1769-1842, Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, Edwards, George, 1694-1773. CMalG, Swaine, John, 1775-1860 · London : Printed for John and Arthur Arch by J. M'Creery · leaf 126

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und on the early wood-cuts characters as Lanzi observes ( Storia Pit- of Germany, or the Low Countries, and are torica, torn. i. p. 34—92), prevailed very less perplexed by abbreviations,generally throughout Italy, and more especi- CHAP. 11.] AND THE ANNUNCIATION, A. D. 1423. 95 in that case, I… … 96 WOOD PRINTS WITH EARLY DATES, [chap. ii. The next print in point of antiquity, hitherto known, bearing adate, of the authenticity of which there appears no ground of doubt,is a wood engraving of a quarto size, which was found in the Abbeyof St. Blasius, in the Black Forest. It represents The…

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