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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 560

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isplay considerable merit in the design ; and REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 535 in this respect several of them are scarcely inferior to the cuts diawnand engraved by John Bewick in Dr. Truslers Progress of Man andSociety. Mr. Lee died in March, 1804; and on his decease, hisapprentice, Henry White,… … Hob. Branston Robert Branston, like Bewick, acquired his knowledge of woodengraving without the instructions of a master. He was born at Lynn,in Norfolk, in 1778, and died in London in 1827. He served hisapprenticeship to his father, a general copper-plate engraver andheraldic painter, who seems to…

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