A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . PRINTED FEOM A WOOD-BLOCK. PRINTED FROM A COPPEK-PLATE. The above impressions—the one from a wood-block, and the otherfrom an etched copper-plate—will perhaps render what has been alreadysaid, explanatory of the difference between copper-plate printing fromhollowed lines, and surface printing by means of the common press fromprominent lines, still more intelligible. The subject is a representationof the copper-plate or rolling press. Both the preceding impressions are produced in the same manner bymeans of the common printing-press. On
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . PRINTED FEOM A WOOD-BLOCK. PRINTED FROM A COPPEK-PLATE. The above impressions—the one from a wood-block, and the otherfrom an etched copper-plate—will perhaps render what has been alreadysaid, explanatory of the difference between copper-plate printing fromhollowed lines, and surface printing by means of the common press fromprominent lines, still more intelligible. The subject is a representationof the copper-plate or rolling press. Both the preceding impressions are produced in the same manner bymeans of the common printing-press. One is from wood ; the other,where the white lines are seen on a black ground, is from copper;—the hollowed lines, which in copper-plate printing yield the impression, ENGRAVING. 5 receiving no ink from the printers balls or rollers; while the surface,which in copper-plate printing is wiped clean after the lines are filledwith ink, is perfectly covered with it. It is, therefore, evident, that if thisetching were printed in the same manner as other co
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