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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 65

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D-BLOCKS—EARLY GERMAN WOOD-ENGRAVERS AT AUGS-BURG, NUREMBERG, AND ULM—CARD-MAKERS AND WOOD-ENGRAVERS IN VENICE IN 1441 —FIGURES OF SAINTS ENGRAVED ON WOOD—THE ST. CHRISTOPHER, THE ANNUNCIATION, ANDTHE ST. BRIDGET IN THE COLLECTION OF EARL SPENCER, WITH OTHER OLD WOOD-CUTSDESCRIBED—BLOCK-BOOKS—THE… … ROM the facts which have been produced in thepreceding chapter, there cannot be a doubtthat the principle on which wood engraving isfounded,—that of taking impressions on paperor parclnnent, with ink, from prominent lines,—was known and practised in attesting docu-ments in the thirteenth and…

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