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 36
WOOD ENGRA VING. 22 tool, which is employed for cutting along both sides of all lines which it is intended to leave in the “ cut or illustration. Fig. 6 gives a nearly full-size view of a graver, of which the upper part A is the back, B the face … of the tool, c the point, and D the belly or lower part. The point of the thinnest among the gravers should be so keen that the line made in it will be scarcely distinguishable by the naked eye. All the gravers should be fixed in half circular handles as shown, as they are then very convenient for…
Wood-engraving
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