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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 219

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. ffor hit is a man that hath the right hondstretched out for to calle men, and holdeth in his left honde a loof ofbreed and a cuppe of wyn . and on his gurdel hangyng a bondel of keyes,and this resemblith the taverners hostelers and sellars of vytayl. and o 10+ WOOD ENGEAVING these ought properly… … The next book containing wood-cuts printed by Caxton is the Mirrour of the World, or thymage of the same, as he entitles itat the head of the table of contents. It is a thin folio consisting ofone hundred leaves ; and, in the Prologue, Caxton informs the readerthat it conteyneth in all Ixvii…

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