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...Lancaster Pen' against it with a stereopticon machine. Once I printed a Sunday paper to give away. . . My wife and I traveled all over; I introduced her to Mrs. Potter Palmer out in Chicago . . . It all goes back to the Baltimore fire." . . Old Mr. Lancaster pointed to a woodcut on a time-stained circular, which showed a Tennysonian gentleman with bushy brown whiskers, gold pince nez. "I looked like that once," said he. "It was always a fight...
...enable a reader to identify any print of which he is doubtful. The catalogue is to-be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the person portrayed and will give such details as description of the subject, size, engraver, printer, date, and whether the print is an engraving, woodcut, mezzotint, or caricature. At present the catalogue has been completed only through the letter...
...earliest dated Florentine book illustrated with a woodcut dates from 1490. After about 1500 the art declined so that it was at its height for only a short time...
...Savonarola collection, consisting of tracts and sermons by Savonarola and writings for and against him, and the Sacre Rappresentazioni, sacred plays, are the most important of the illustrated books printed in Florence during this period, and the even elution of the woodcut may be studied to advantage in them. The earliest cuts showed only a few figures depicted with the greatest economy of line. Later, more figures were employed, backgrounds were elaborated, and an attempt made to achieve realism and expressiveness. The Sacre Rappresentazioni contains cuts made from the original blocks, copies of the originals, cuts made for later editions...
...woodcuts shown include three cuts from one of the most popular and most important of the block-books,--the Apocalypse. They are colored by hand in the characteristic manner in this early time. A number of printed books with woodcut illustrations, lent by the Widener Library, show one of the most important uses of the woodcut and represent the art of book-illustration as it was practiced in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Germany...