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THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING. 167
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engravers of these two countries began to illustrate their sets of prints with such portions of texts as should render them instructive
as well as amusing to the lower classes , it is impossible to determine . One of the first ways employed to take impressions was to
charge the block with black tint , and then to lay upon its surface a sheet of which had reviously been damped , so that
it might the more paper easily attach its p elf to the block ; the friction of a rubber made of hair or ieces of cloth was then applied to
the which was afterwards p rubbed until it had received the paper , impression With regard of the to engraving the singular . silence of contemporary historians
concerning this invention , it is probable that for a very long time the nature of this art remained known only to the initiated few ,
and it is not at all unlikely that engravings were for a long time confounded by the masses with paintings or drawings , as they are
still denominatedand no doubt so considered , by the uneducated , even in our own time .
Of the celebrated block-books , to which we have already referredthe earliest are The Apocalyptic Yision of Saint John
in Patmos , ' ' The Song , of Songs of Solomon , ' and that which is known to , collectors as ' The Poor Preacher ' s Bible , ' sometimes 6
thi scarcel in erroneousl abbreviated extraordinary y read y called their Latin mistake The , own and Poor . language appeared Block Man - ' book , s at we Bible a s period need derived ; ' but say when , their as no it the was more names rich printed about coul from d
s the fact that each page was printed from one block ; and as two leaf sheets Block were - pasted books containing together , they both had text the and appearance figures were of executed a single
long of moveable . after the t introduction but the of cuts typograp in such hy works , or printing are decidedl , by mean y in s - ype ;
ferior to those executed at an earlier period ; and it is nearly certain that all the blocks were printednot by the press , but by
friction app to have lied to been the back prevalent of each at cut an . , earl Jackson y period says that , an the opinion idea
a of appears ' p Donatus rinting with ' ( i . e moveable . a lesson- types book was for boys first ) derived , printed from from publishing wooden
blocks . * is The Psalter first book printed which b appeared Faust and with Schoeifer a date and at the Mentz printer 1457 's name ; the
large ink a are initial said letters to be , engraved the y most on beautifu wood , l and specimens printed , in of red this , and kind blue of , of this book
ornament alike known remarkabl , while and e ever , althoug they the produced whole are h bearing all of . printe the Onl the ornamental y d sam seven on e date vellum cop , work no ies , two and , by cop what far ies the are is quite more most are ;
difficult part to execute block-books , is were finished printed with between such 1432 neatness and 1439 and . delicacy ,
The History Of Wood-Engraving. 167
THE HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/23/
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