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A practical manual of wood engraving : with a brief account of the history of the art (1886)

Brown, William Norman · London : C. Lockwood and Co. · leaf 20

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WOOZ) ENGRA VING. 0 consisted principally of religious subjects, with brief descriptions engraved on the same block. The most important of them were the “Apo- calypsis seu Historia Sancti Johannis,” the ‘‘ Historia Virginis ex Cantica Canticorum,’' and the “ Biblia Pauperum,” this last containing… … Fig. 2, — Illustration from “ Apocahpsis.” of the Old and New Testaments, with explana- tory texts. The illustrations — of which Mr. Jackson, in his admirable treatise upon the “ History and Practice of Wood Engraving,’" gives an elaborate account and several speci- mens— seem to be drawn with an…

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