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 495
ey were published in a quarto pamphlet, with a vignette,in the title-page, of an ancient poet safely seated and playing on hisharp ; and at the end a tail-piece representing a modern poet in hugeboots, flung from a mountain by his Pegasus into the sea, and losinghis tie-wig in the fall. The… … The cuts in a collection of humorous pieces in verse, entitled The Oxford Sausage, 1764, are evidently by the same engraver,and almost every one of them affords an instance of lowering.At the foot of one of them, at page 89, the name Lister is seen;the subject is a bacchanalian figure mounted on a…
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