Some Practical Hints on Wood Engraving for the Instruction of Reviewers (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Some Practical Hints on Wood Engraving for the Instruction of Reviewers

OR the last June number of the Atlantic flfont/zly F I wrote an article on Art in Engraving on Wood. Aware how little technically was known concerning en graving, I tried to make my meaning plain to the meanest capacity. I confess I did not think of the Reviewers.

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Excerpt from Some Practical Hints on Wood Engraving for the Instruction of Reviewers

The object of the following treatise is to help the general public (that is, those who had not the good fortune to read the Atlantic Monthly for June) toward some accuracy of judgment as to what is good and what bad in Engraving-on-Wood. What is said may also have an interest and be of advantage to engravers. The remarks interspersed for the special benefit of Reviewers whose ignorance evaded the Atlantic teaching will not perhaps acquire for me their spontaneous thanks. I have been compelled however to take the risk, said Reviewers' blunders serving me as texts, themselves as convenient blackboards whereupon my Hints might be made more sufficiently conspicuous. Why else should I have troubled them?

For the loan of Plate I, I am indebted, through the kindness of Mr. E. J. Whitney, to the American Tract Society; and for Plate IV my thanks are due to Messrs. Putnam.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.