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 682
seventeenth century all kinds of printersornaments, such as flowers, head and tail-pieces, were generallytermed vignettes; and more recently the word has been used toexpress ail kinds of wood-cuts or copper-plate engravings which,like the group from the Village Festival, are not inclosed within g\a… … 618 THE PKACTTCE OF WOOD ENGEAVING. Book to denote the sculptured foliage and tracery at the sides of awindow: And if I should rehearsen liy and byThe corve knots, by craft and masonry,The fresh embowing with virges right as lines,And the housing full of backewines.The rich coining, the lusty…
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