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The printed book, its history, illustration, and adornment, from the days of Gutenberg to the present time (1887)

Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 248

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ndsince reprinted. PROCESSES OF ILLUSTRATION. 237 In our days the great Paris publishers have returnedto the books of the eighteenth century, ornamentedwith vignettes on copper ; many of theni purely andsimply imitate by photographic processes the prettyeditions of Eisen and Moreau, but they do not… … Fig. loi.—Wood engraving by Clennell,after Stothard, for Rogerss Poems. 1812. of France; the Longmans, Murrays, Macmillans, KeganPauls, Cassells, and Chattos of England; the Harpers,Scribners, Lippincotts, and Houghtons of the UnitedStates, they are to us what the ancients of whom wehave spoken…

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