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 548
e supporters, aHighland soldier and a fisherman, he copied himself The block onwhich he first began to engrave this cut consisted of several pieces ofbox veneered upon beech ; and after he had been employed upon it forabout two months, it one afternoon suddenly split when he was at tea.Clennell,… … threw all the tea-things into the fire. In the course of a few dayshowever, he got a new block made, consisting of solid pieces of .boxfirmly screwed and cramped together ; and having paid Thurston fifteenpounds more for re-drawing the figures within the circle, and havingagain copied the…
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