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 330
are, from the ease withwhich they can be pirated, more difficult of protection than any otherinventions whatever. Such protection as the existing laws afford isquite inadequate. I cannot better illustrate my meaning, than bymentioning the case of engraving in metallic relief, an art which… … No. 135. Apparently designed by Burgmair. that is to say, the art of transferring his designs, after they had beensketched on paper, immediately into metallic relief, so that they might beprinted along with letter-press. At present, the only sort of engravingsyou can print along with letter-press…
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