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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 421

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The following is a slightly reduced copy of the first four lines of the Sonetto figurato; the other ten lines are expressed by figures in a,similar manner. As to figured sonnets, says the author, no better … rule can be given, than merely to observe that the figures should clearlyand distinctly correspond with the matter, and that there should be asfew supplementary letters as possible. Of course, orthography and pure WOOD ENGEAVING. 397 Italian are not to be looked for in such exercises ; and it is no…

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