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 670
er, but cannotreproduce the black which he has cut away, he ought to be careful not toget his subject too light before he has taken a proof; and even inreducing the colour according to the touchings of the designer on theproof, he ought to proceed with great circumspection ; and where his… … directions of an artist who knows very little of the teal advantages ofwood engraving, it will not unfrequently happen that the cut so amendedwill to himself, when printed, appear worse than it did iH its first state.In the following cut too much has been done in this respect; it hasbeen touched…
Wood-engraving
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