A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . wellaware that he would not have felt any pleasure in calling the attentionof his readers to a series of wood-cuts executed in England upwardsof thirty years before he was born, and which are not much inferior—except as regards the animals—to the cuts of fables engraved by himselfand his brother previous to 1780. The cuts in Croxalls-^sop not only * The Fables of Mr. John Gay, with cuts by Thomas and John Bewick, AvaspubUshed in 1779. Select Fables, a new edition improved, with cuts by the same,appeared in 1784 ; both in duodecimo, pri
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . wellaware that he would not have felt any pleasure in calling the attentionof his readers to a series of wood-cuts executed in England upwardsof thirty years before he was born, and which are not much inferior—except as regards the animals—to the cuts of fables engraved by himselfand his brother previous to 1780. The cuts in Croxalls-^sop not only * The Fables of Mr. John Gay, with cuts by Thomas and John Bewick, AvaspubUshed in 1779. Select Fables, a new edition improved, with cuts by the same,appeared in 1784 ; both in duodecimo, printed by T. Saint, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The cutsin the latter work are considerably better than those in the former. Several of tlie cuts G G 4fiO nKVTVAT. OF WOOD ENGRAVING. display great iiiipiovement in the engraver, supposing him to be the sameperson that executed the head-pieces and ornaments in Maittaires LatinClassics printed in 1713, but are very much superior to any cutscontained in works of the same kind printed in France between 1700and FROM A COPPER-PLATE 15V S. LE OLERC.
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