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A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)

Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 135

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thatI eanne or may, I here recomende me, duely glade to her of yor good 110 PROGRESS OF prosperitye and weltli. The writing, as I have been informed, is of theperiod of Henry VIII; and on the slips of paper and parchment towhich the inner margins of the leaves are pasted are portions of… … 1 agree with Sh: Ottley in thinking tliat those cuts were engravedabout the middle of the fifteenth century, but I can perceive nothing inthem to induce me to suppose they were the work of a Dutch artist;and I am as little inclined to ascribe them to a German. The style ofthe drawing is not vmlike…

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