A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . JOHN MARTIN \V. H. FOWIS The talented engraver of the present subject has already been named,with commendation, at page 544. We learn that the sum paid him forengraving it was fifteen guineas, being three guineas more than theaverage price. Mr. Wm. Bagg, now a successful draftsman of anatomicalsubjects, made this and all the other drawings on the blocks at therate of five guineas each, and Mr. John Martin had ten guineas eachfor the designs. As the volume contains 144 sul)jects it must have cost REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. 547 the proje
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . JOHN MARTIN \V. H. FOWIS The talented engraver of the present subject has already been named,with commendation, at page 544. We learn that the sum paid him forengraving it was fifteen guineas, being three guineas more than theaverage price. Mr. Wm. Bagg, now a successful draftsman of anatomicalsubjects, made this and all the other drawings on the blocks at therate of five guineas each, and Mr. John Martin had ten guineas eachfor the designs. As the volume contains 144 sul)jects it must have cost REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. 547 the projectors, Messrs. Bull and Churton, upwards of four thousandouineas : it may now be bought for a dozen JOHN MARTIN THOS. WILLIAMS Me. Thomas Williams ranks high as an engraver on wood, and theillustrated works of the last twenty years teem with his of tlic onijraYinfTS in the IMerric Days of England, 1859, are by him.
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