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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 456

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vices, on the title-page, or at the end of a work, are drawn andengraved with great spirit. The following devices occur in a folio * Dr. Dibdin, in his Preliminary Disquisition on Early Engraving and OrnamentalPrinting, in his edition of Ames and Herberts Typographical Antiquities, has given… … ornamental work on each side, occupying nearly the width of a page,but omitted in the copy—is several times repeated; the larger—whereGrimalkin sits like an eastern monarch upon his throne*—formsthe tailpiece at the end of the volume.

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