wood-blocks

I swept the floor and collected coffee, sugar and sundry debris into a dustpan and gloomily looked at the dozens of superimposed paint-laden footprints on my wood-blocks, all left by the types of trainers sold by the million throughout Britain and useless for identifying the wearers.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

The rough old wood-blocks in the old harlequin-backed fairy-books had served hundreds of years; before OUR Plancus, in the time of Priscus Plancus — in Queen

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

For this sixty-first thousand, fresh electrotypes have been taken from the wood-blocks (which, never having been used for printing from, are in as good condition as when first cut in 1871), and the whole book has been set up afresh with new type.

Through the Looking Glass 2003

I swept the floor and collected coffee, sugar and sundry debris into a dustpan and gloomily looked at the dozens of superimposed paint-laden footprints on my wood-blocks, all left by the types of trainers sold by the million throughout Britain and useless for identifying the wearers.

To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

These books, printed in the usual Chinese method from wood-blocks, could have provided models for the Spaniards in the Philippines who lacked European facilities for printing, and they may have given birth to the idea which resulted in the xylographic Doctrinas.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

In a word, he concluded that the first book issued in the Philippines was a Doctrina printed from wood-blocks in 1593.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

Since we have here dealt with a volume printed entirely from wood-blocks it does not seem necessary to discuss in detail the subsequent typographical books.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

Nieva died on his way to Mexico, he had had books printed, and since they were in Chinese they must have been printed from wood-blocks, for at that early date it would have been impossible to have cast the number of characters necessary to print in Chinese with movable type.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

Quiñones, there is no evidence of the existence of any book printed for him from wood-blocks or in type.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

The first suggestion that early Philippine books may have been printed from wood-blocks occurred in Quétif and Echard's bibliography of

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951