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Japanese wood engravings : their history, technique and characteristics (1895)

Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 26

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JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS 14 ing as applied to book-pictures doubtless arose from the wish of the publisher to increase the attractions of the issue in the eyes of a public … Fig. 5- — Reduced from a woodcut in the Ise Monogatari (1608). ( Author's Collection.) who had not yet learned to appreciate the advantages of the press. The pigments, however, were garish and ill applied, and only rendered more

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