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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 478

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destroying the hydra; and a manwith a large lantern. They are much superior to any cuts of thesame kind with the mark F. H.; and from the manner in which theyare executed, I am inclined to think that they are the work of theperson who engraved the cuts in Croxalls -^sop. The following isa… … John Baptist Jackson, an English wood engraver, was, accordingto Papillon, a pupil of the person who engraved the small head-pieces and ornaments in Maittaires Latin Classics, published byTonson and Watts in 1713; and as the cuts in Croxalls ^sop wereprobably engraved by the same person, as has…

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