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A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical

Chapter 11: CHAPTER II. PROGRESS OF WOOD ENGRAVING.
By William Andrew Chatto
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A combined historical survey and practical manual that traces the development of wood engraving, presenting chronological chapters on surviving blocks, stylistic schools, and notable practitioners alongside detailed explanations of tools, materials, cutting and printing techniques. The text interleaves critical commentary on individual engravings with practical guidance for working engravers, discusses technical improvements and processes for reproducing images, and assembles numerous wood-engraved illustrations, plates, a list of illustrations and an index to aid reference, closing with an additional chapter addressing more recent artists and extra examples.

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CHAPTER II.
PROGRESS OF WOOD ENGRAVING.

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 engraved on wood—the st. christopher, the annunciation, and the st. bridget in the collection of earl spencer, with other old wood-cuts described—block-books—the apocalypse, the history of the virgin, and the work called biblia pauperum—speculum salvationis—figured alphabet formerly belonging to sir george beaumont—ars memorandi, and other smaller block-books.