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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 56

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WOOD ENGRAVING. 42 over several times, the student making each design smaller than the one preceding it, and varying it in any other ways that his fancy may dictate, thus thoroughly getting his “hand’' in. As the succeeding subjects may have more or less of shading in them, I would recommend the… … Fig. 19. — Graduated Tinting. fluous. As will be seen, the exercise consists of cutting a series of perfectly true and straight parallel lines. When a tool in using crosses any portion of the work, and which, if pressed, would injure it, it is always advisable to place a piece of thin cardboard…

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