Engraving: Its Origin, Processes, and History

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS.
I. The Processes of Early Engraving. The Beginnings of Engraving in Relief. Xylography and Printing with Movable Type
II. Playing Cards. The Dot Manner
III. First Attempts at Intaglio Engraving. The Nielli of the Florentine Goldsmiths. Prints by the Italian and German Painter-Engravers of the Fifteenth Century
IV. Line Engraving and Wood Engraving in Germany and Italy in the Sixteenth Century
V. Line Engraving and Etching in the Low Countries, to the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
VI. The Beginning of Line Engraving and Etching in France and England. First Attempts at Mezzotint. A Glance at Engraving in Europe before 1660
VII. French Engravers in the Reign of Louis XIV
VIII. Engraving in France and in other European Countries in the Eighteenth Century. New Processes: Stipple, Crayon, Colour, and Aquatint
IX. Engraving in the Nineteenth Century
A Chapter on English Engraving
Chronological Table of English Engravers
Index