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 51
GENERAL INFORMATION, ETC. 37 The following is a brief summary of the processes through which the log of boxwood has to pass ere it passes into the engraver’s hands a bolted block according to the method of Mr. Wells, and with this my chapter will close. (i.) It is sawn up into one-inch thick slices… … 17- — Showing ‘^‘Bolted” Block unscrewed, the above being the back, or under view, of the blocks in both illustrations. the former, the pieces being then dried. (2.) The pieces are then squared into sizes, as large as the round log will permit. (3.) The pieces are next matched according to sizes…
Wood-engraving
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