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 485
he dedication, it seems likely thatthey had appeared in a similar work printed at the same place a fewyears previously. They are generally executed in a coarser mannerthan those contained in Papillons own work, but the style of engravingand general effect are the same. The cut on the next page is a… … I Papillons History of Wood Engraving, published in 1766, intwo octavo volumes, with a Supplement,* under the title of TraiteHistorique et Pratique de la Gravure en Bois, is said to have beenprojected, and partly written, upwards of thirty years before it wasgiven to the public. Shortly after his…
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