A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical

The Dance of Death -- Painted in Several Old Churches -- Two Paintings of this Subject at Basle -- Old Editions of La Danse Macabre, with Wood-Cuts -- Les Simulachres et Histori...

Bibliographical Tour, vol. iii. pp. 445, 446. The Baron sold a rare specimen of copper-plate engraving with the date M. CCCC. XXX. to the Doctor, and it seems that he also sold...

Playing-Cards Printed from Wood-Blocks -- Early German Wood-Engravers at Augsburg, Nuremberg, and Ulm -- Card-Makers and Wood-Engravers in Venice in 1441 -- Figures of Saints En...

The Discovery of Desroches. -- The Stamping of Lodewyc Van Vaelbeke. -- Early “Prenters” of Antwerp and Bruges Not Typographers. -- Cologne Chronicle. -- Donatuses Printed in Ho...

English Wood-Cuts in 1712 -- Howel’s Medulla Historiæ Anglicanæ -- Maittaire’s Classics 1713 -- E. Kirkall -- His Chiaro-Scuros -- Cuts in Croxall’s Æsop, 1722 -- J. B. Jackson...

an old vignette; it is copied from a manuscript apparently of the thirteenth century, formerly belonging to the monastery of Durham, but now in the British Museum. Subsequently...

Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter of 1457 -- Printing at Bamberg in 1461 -- Books Containing Wood-Cuts Printed there by Albert Pfister -- Opposition of the Wood Engravers of Augsburg...

Erroneous Opinions About Cross-Hatching -- The Choice and Preparation of the Wood -- Mode of Inserting a Plug -- Magnifying Glasses and Engraver’s Lamp -- Different Kinds of Too...

Engraving -- The Word Explained -- The Art Defined -- Distinction Between Engraving on Copper and on Wood -- Early Practice of the Art of Impressing Characters by Means of Stamp...

own costume when making a tour of the Lakes in 1776,--introduced twice, at the end of the contents, page xxx. and again at page 177. A man _watering_, in a different sense to th...

a boy with a peculiar kind of brush, which answers the purpose of a small-toothed comb; and she appears to bestow her labour on no infertile field, for each of her “sweepings,”...

The present chapter, which is additional to the former edition, had not been contemplated until the previous pages were printed off. But it was then suggested to the publisher,...

Chiaro-Scuro Engraving on Wood -- A Copper-Plate by Mair Mistaken for the First Chiaro-Scuro -- Dotted Backgrounds in Old Wood-Cuts -- Albert Durer Probably Not a Wood-Engraver...

Two Old Soldiers, “the Honours of War,” drawn by R. Johnson, engraved by Bewick, introduction v vii Man creeping along the branch of a tree to cross a stream, drawn by R. Johnso...

The Sierra Morena, engraved by James Cooper, after Percival Skelton 550 The Banks the Nith, engraved by ditto, after Birket Foster 551 The Twa Dogs, engraved by ditto, after Har...

Initial letter A, from a French book, 1698 446 Fox and Goat, from a copper-plate by S. Le Clerc, about 1694 450 The same subject from Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, 1722 450 The same...

Initial letter T, from a book printed at Paris by Robert Stephens, 1537 324 Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, from a cut designed by Hans Holbein in the Dance of Death, f...

Initial letter P, showing a wood engraver at work, with his lamp and globe, drawn by R. W. Buss 561 Diagram, showing a block warped 566 Cut showing the appearance of a plug-hole...

Initial letter M, from an edition of Ovid’s Tristia, printed at Venice by J. de Cireto, 1499 230 Peasants dancing and regaling, from Heures a l’Usaige de Chartres, printed at Pa...

Initial letter C, from Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter 164 Apes, from a book of Fables printed at Bamberg by Albert Pfister, 1461 171 Heads, from an edition of the Poor Preachers’...

necessary to examine the grounds of this opinion. [gronnds] wood engravings supposed to have been executed by Albert Durer [excuted] [Footnote V-12] ... we find the words: “_Ged...

Initial letter F, from an old book containing an alphabet of similar letters, engraved on wood, formerly belonging to Sir George Beaumont 40 St. Christopher, with the date 1423,...

Page Initial letter A,-- an ancient Greek _scriving_ on a tablet of wood, drawn by W. Harvey 1 View of a rolling-press, on wood and on copper, showing the difference between a w...

[Footnote II-2] ... That is: “always excepting [_open quote missing_] The term _Formschneider_, which was originally used [Fornschneider] [Footnote II-7] ... der Spielkarten Zu...

Boughs and Bird’s-nest, drawn and engraved by Charlton Nesbit, preface i i Sportsman and Old Shepherd, drawn by Robert Johnson, engraved by Bewick, preface (transferred to Vol....

Esau selling his birthright, ditto 91 Heads ditto 92 First cut in the Speculum Salvationis, which has generally, but erroneously, been described as a block-book, as the text in...

Mr. Pearson has lately been engaged in engraving Icthyological subjects [_spelling unchanged_] Favourite Modern Ballads, Favourite English Poems [Englis] [Illustrations] SPECIME...

[Footnote IX-6] ... where it soon eat up everything [_text unchanged: probably correct_] [IX-10] [_footnote tag missing: best guess_] that the colour would be proportionably str...

the loitering cask, (that bears its / date) from [date, from] [_in the same passage, “Lyde” for expected “Lydus” is in Smart_] and even allowing him to be sincere [eve nallowing...

[Footnote IV-5] ... written at Paris in 1449 [_a in “at” invisible_] printed at the press of Haass the Younger, of Basil [_spelling unchanged_] not only in Germany, but in Franc...

(Displaying thus his meikle skill,) [_closing parenthesis missing_] [Footnote III-2] ... “J’ai rendu _Vedelare_ [rendn] for in no country are books to be found printed [foe in]...

10. _Die Keyserinn._--The Empress. [_anomalous . in original_] To England straightway let him send, [_n in “send” invisible_] When Mr. Douce stated that it was [Mr Douce] It str...