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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 524

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the shade of a dyhe-back, on a warm day, page 74. In this cut Bewiclchas introduced a sketch of a magpie chased by a hawk, but saved fromthe talons of its pursuer by the timely interference of a couple of crows.Winter scene, of which the following is a copy, at page 78. Some boys … have made a large snow man, which excites the special wonderment of ahorse ; and Bewick, to give the subject a moral application, has addedEsto perpetua ! at the bottom of the cut: the great work of the littlemen, however they may admire it, and wish for its endurance, will bedissolved on the first…

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