A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . FROM A COPPER-PLATE 15V S. LE FROM A WOOD-CUT IN CHOXALL S ^SOP, INIany of the subjects in Croxall are merely reversed copies ofengravings on copper by S. Le Clerc, illustrative of a French edition which originally appeared in those two works are to be found in Select Fables ; with cutsdesigned and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, octavo, printed forEmerson Charncly, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 18-20. * The cuts in two different editions of ^Esops Fables, i)ublished at Paris,—the one byCharles Le Clerc in 1731, and the ot
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . FROM A COPPER-PLATE 15V S. LE FROM A WOOD-CUT IN CHOXALL S ^SOP, INIany of the subjects in Croxall are merely reversed copies ofengravings on copper by S. Le Clerc, illustrative of a French edition which originally appeared in those two works are to be found in Select Fables ; with cutsdesigned and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, octavo, printed forEmerson Charncly, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 18-20. * The cuts in two different editions of ^Esops Fables, i)ublished at Paris,—the one byCharles Le Clerc in 1731, and the other by J. Barl)ou in 1758,—are most wretchedly mark of Vincent Le iSneur appears on the frontispiece to Le Clercs edition. REVIVAL OF wool) ENGKAVING. 451 of ^Esops iables published about 1G94. The first of the precediugcuts is a fac-simile of one of Le Clercs engravings ; and tlie secondis a copy of the same subject as it appears in Croxall. The fableto which they both relate is the Fox and the Goat. The above cut is by no means one of the best in Croxall : it hasnot been s
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