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 436
the modern wood engraver has a handlewhich is rounded at the top in order to accommodate it to the palmof the hand. It is also never held vertically, as it appears in thehand of the Formschneider. It is, however, certain, from other wood-cuts, which will be subsequently noticed, that the wood… … I am a wood-engraver good.And all designs on blocks of woodI with my graver cut so neat,Tliat when theyre printed on a sheetOf paper white, you plainly viewThe very forms the artist drew :His dra\ving, whether coarse or fine,Is tndy copied line for line. Jost Amman died in 1591, and from the time…
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