Some practical hints on wood engraving for the instruction of reviewers and the public (1879)
Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897 · Boston : Lee and Shepard; New York, C.T. Dillingham · leaf 56
-tistic, and without even mechanical correctness, such FAC-SIMILE 41 work (as my reader will now perceive) is not really fac-simile, the indispensable condition of which, whethermechanical or artistic, is clearness of line, especiallywhere lines cross. I have perhaps said enough to enable an… … WHITE-LINE WHITE-LINES in wood are produced — as theReviewer has informed us — by taking pieces ofwood out of a plain wood-surface, called a block bywood-engravers, with a graver, a tool used for thatpurpose. You can, according to the size of the graverand the energic force of your hand, take or…
Wood-engraving -- Technique
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