A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . rt of copper-plate engraving was brought * In Herberts edition of the Typographical Antiquities, vol. iii. p. 1681, both parts ofthis work are said to have engraved titles, and the arms of Sir C. Hatton are said to occurat the back of the title to the first part. The work contains twenty-two maps and charts,probably copied from the original Dutch edition of Wagenar, who was a native of is no printers name in the English edition. t Walpole erroneously states that Broughtons book was not printed till 1600, and hesays that
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . rt of copper-plate engraving was brought * In Herberts edition of the Typographical Antiquities, vol. iii. p. 1681, both parts ofthis work are said to have engraved titles, and the arms of Sir C. Hatton are said to occurat the back of the title to the first part. The work contains twenty-two maps and charts,probably copied from the original Dutch edition of Wagenar, who was a native of is no printers name in the English edition. t Walpole erroneously states that Broughtons book was not printed till 1600, and hesays that the cuts were probably engraved by an English artist named William mark p(^ is to be found on some of the plates of the edition of 1600, but it is tobe observed that they are not the same as those in the edition of 1591. The first editionof the work was printed in 1588. 42-t FUKTHEK PEOGKESS AND DECLINE OF to this country from Antwerp by Speed the historian,—an error whichis pointed out by Walpole : the writer it seems Imd not been aware of. any earlier copper-plates printed in England than Speeds maps, whichwere chiefly executed by Flemish engravers. WOOD ENGRAVING. 425 i)r. AVilliam Cuningham, whom Walpole describes as an engraver,was a physician practising at Norwich ; and his book, entitled TheCosmographical Glasse,* some of the plates of which are said to havebeen engraved by the doctors own hand, was printed at London byJohn Day m 1559. It contains no plates, properly speaking, for theenfrravinsfs are all from wood-blocks. At the foot of the ornamentaltitle-page, and in a large birds-eye view of Norwich, is the mark I. , which, from something like a tool for engraving, between the B. andr in the original, is most likely that of the engraver. The principalcut is a portrait of the author, a fac-simile of which is given in theopposite page. It is much more likely that some of those cuts were engraved bythe printer of the book, John Day, than by the author, D
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