Engravings

Examples

• Here was a grand Oriental picture which I had worshiped a thousand times in soft, rich steel engravings! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We will turn over my Italian engravings together, continued that good-natured man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The production of engravings is just as highly technical and scientific and involves as much experience and judgment in their application as any of the learned professions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One day Gutenberg told him that they needed a good man to cut the designs for the engravings. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They superseded wood engravings, which for years has been the recognized medium for illustrations to print on a type printing press. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Cowper recommended the Religious Tract Society to put aside their coarse woodcuts, to have superior wood engravings, and to print with his machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Photo-engravings are a comparatively modern product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Each number, published weekly, consisted of eight pages of letterpress, illustrated with good wood engravings. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The means he employs of doing so are at present kept secret, but he has shown its practicability by copying, on wood engravings, Mr. George Cruikshank's series of The Bottle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• By the process of electrotyping, plates of metal duplicating exactly the printing surface of the type and engravings in the original page, can be made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Oriental scenes look best in steel engravings. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is also employed economically for engravings, to give a fine surface to a thick sheet of coarser material. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Photo-engravings, broadly speaking, are divided into two classes--line engravings and halftones. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Among the many applications of lithography, the transfer of copper-plate engravings is one of the most useful. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Fifty proofs of steel engravings and lithographs were scattered around, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We no longer see any photographs, photo-engravings, photolithographs, or snap-shot cameras. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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