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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 689

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risk of the lines engraved on them not being brought up, andthus causing the figure in relief to appear surrounded with a white line,as in the impressions from the crown-piece at page 618. By means of lowering, the black pony, on which a boy is seen riding,in the following cut, is much more… … lightest of the trees, are all lowered in order to give greater effect tothe pony. A cut which is properly lowered may not only be printed by a steam-press without overlays, but will also afford a much greater number of \.v.v/<^<^;?*-^-iS

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