A History of Wood-engravingHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 221 páginas |
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... for permission to reproduce several cuts in their possession ; and to Mr. Lindsay Swift , of the Boston Public Library , for the list of authorities at the end of the volume . Especially it is my pleasant duty to thank Professor Charles.
... for permission to reproduce several cuts in their possession ; and to Mr. Lindsay Swift , of the Boston Public Library , for the list of authorities at the end of the volume . Especially it is my pleasant duty to thank Professor Charles.
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... cut in relief upon wood was known to the ancients , who used engraved wooden stamps to in- dent figures and letters in soft substances like wax and clay , and , possibly , to print colors on surfaces , as had been done from early times ...
... cut in relief upon wood was known to the ancients , who used engraved wooden stamps to in- dent figures and letters in soft substances like wax and clay , and , possibly , to print colors on surfaces , as had been done from early times ...
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... cut ' Hadriani Junii Batavia . Lugdunum Batavorum , 1588 . S. Sotheby , " Principia Typographica . " The block - books issued in Hol- land , Flanders , and Germany during the 15th century . London , 1858 ; 3 vols .; vol . i . , p . 179 ...
... cut ' Hadriani Junii Batavia . Lugdunum Batavorum , 1588 . S. Sotheby , " Principia Typographica . " The block - books issued in Hol- land , Flanders , and Germany during the 15th century . London , 1858 ; 3 vols .; vol . i . , p . 179 ...
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... cut has little artistic merit , but the attempt to mark shadows by a greater or less width of line is noticeable , and the lines in general are much more varied than is usual in early work . It was printed in black ink , and with a ...
... cut has little artistic merit , but the attempt to mark shadows by a greater or less width of line is noticeable , and the lines in general are much more varied than is usual in early work . It was printed in black ink , and with a ...
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... cut these few letters upon the block , although ignorant of the vast consequences of their humble work , began that great movement which was to change the face of civilization . After letters had once been printed , to multiply the ...
... cut these few letters upon the block , although ignorant of the vast consequences of their humble work , began that great movement which was to change the face of civilization . After letters had once been printed , to multiply the ...
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Página 159 - I returned to my book — Bewick's History of British Birds : the letter-press thereof I cared little for, generally speaking ; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl ; of " the solitary rocks and promontories...
Página 161 - I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newlyrisen crescent, attesting the hour of even-tide. The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly : it was an object of terror. So was the black, horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a...
Página 160 - The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
Página 33 - Biblia pauperum. Reproduced in facsimile, from one of the copies in the British Museum; with an historical and bibliographical introduction by J. PH.
Página 161 - Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour...
Página 160 - Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive. The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly...
Página 214 - Histoire de l'origine et des progrès de la Gravure dans les Pays-Bas et en Allemagne, jusqu'à la fin du quinzième siècle.
Página 161 - The fiend pinning down the thiefs pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror. So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows. Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting...