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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 234

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anner inwhich they are executed, are superior to everything of the same kindwhich had previously appeared. The work also contains smaller cuts IN CONNEXION WITH THE PKESS. 209 printed with the type, which are not generally remarkable for theirexecution, although some of them are drawn and engraved… … In a cut of animals there is a figure of a giraffe,* named byBreydenbach seraffa, of a unicorn, a salamander, a camel, and ananimal something like an oran-outang, except that it has a tail. Of thelast the traveller observes, non constat de nomine. Some account ofthis book, with fac-similes of the…

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