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Children's entertainers, a secret studios art trail, knitting, wood-engraving, folk bands and choirs might be expected, but magicians and Morris dancers should be the unexpected sparklers.
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Moving on the edges of the Bloomsbury Group, Gwen enrolled in the Slade School of Painting and Drawing; wood-engraving of little interest when she first sharpened her chisels but her talent soon became apparent.
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Moving on the edges of the Bloomsbury Group, Gwen enrolled in the Slade School of Painting and Drawing; wood-engraving of little interest when she first sharpened her chisels but her talent soon became apparent.
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Moving on the edges of the Bloomsbury Group, Gwen enrolled in the Slade School of Painting and Drawing; wood-engraving of little interest when she first sharpened her chisels but her talent soon became apparent.
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He went up to his bedroom, wandered aimlessly about, smoked three cigarettes, and finally sat on the bed, staring in a sort of trance at a wood-engraving that hung above his dressing-table.
The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963
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Besides it must be taken fair notice of that a genuine wood-engraving, or woodcut block may soon become a curiosity of the past, owing to the improved methods of illustrating children's books.
Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson
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There are two systems of engraving employed in bank-notes: -- (1) line-engraving in which the lines are cut into the steel or copper plates; and (2) relief-engraving in which the lines stand up above the plate as in wood-engraving.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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He also made great progress in the art of wood-engraving, and with the money he received for a series of blocks for a work called
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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The imprint on matrix in cameo, having been coated with graphite, is then placed vertically in a galvanoplastic bath, and a cast, an exact reproduction of the wood-engraving, is obtained.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various
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[3] While on the subject of _wood-engraving_, perhaps we may he allowed to mention our own humble plan of illustrating a sheet of letter-press for twopence.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various
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