Gifford says, "In Jonson's time, scarcely any ballad was printed without a woodcut illustrative of its subject.
It has a woodcut of a lady dressed in the full court costume of the time, holding in her right hand a fan of feathers.
The Gloucester cloister and the carrel recesses shown in this woodcut date from the latter part of the fourteenth century.
In the Salisbury Missal of 1534 is a woodcut of the Trinity triangle surmounted by a three-faced head similar to the above.
With 68 Woodcut Illustrations, from Original Drawings, and 5 Initial Pages of Persian Designs by T.
With numerous Woodcut Illustrations, chiefly from Designs by W.
Here is a woodcut of Tenniel's, which I think contains as high qualities as it is possible to find in modern art.
Facsimile from Holbein's woodcut 47 The Two Preachers (Fig.
And for this high reason, gentlemen, that paradox which perhaps seemed to you so daring, is nevertheless deeply and finally true, that while a woodcut may be laboriously finished, a grand engraving on metal must be comparatively incomplete.
Now, here I have in my hand a lively woodcut of the present day--a good average type of the modern style of wood-cutting, which you will all recognize.
The three pieces of woodcut from his Fables (the two lower ones enlarged) in the opposite plate, show his utmost strength and utmost rudeness.
Facsimile from Holbein's woodcut 103 "He that hath ears to hear let him hear" (Fig.
Absolutely, an immense disadvantage,--a woodcut never can be so beautiful or good a thing as a painting, or line engraving.
As they walked past the building where this travelled ship was shewn, many of the visitors seemed each to be reading a paper in his hands, while some have a gilt-edged book, and others a broadsheet with a large woodcut on it.
The woodcut heading our Preface indicates crudely the armour prevailing in this period.
Of the first heaumes the flat-topped, or those with slightly curved crowns, were probably the earliest, of which the woodcut No.
Hewitt has dealt with this subject perhaps more fully and lucidly than any other author, and the woodcut on opposite page (Fig.
With 71 Plates engraved on Steel, and numerous Woodcut Capitals.
Page 1 contains the title, with a woodcut of Henry VIII.
This curious and uncouth-looking creature, of which thewoodcut Fig.
Fissures are frequently produced during the eruptions, extending over a considerable radius, as represented in the woodcut on page 57 of the fissures of Locarno (Fig.
Trajan built one on the pier at Ancona, when he restored that harbour, and another at Beneventum, when he repaired the Via Appia, represented in the woodcut here given.
The weapon which forms the subject of the woodcut is a dagger of the time of Philip and Mary, ornamented with engraving.
It is preserved in the original case of thin brass, covered with black leather, and ornamented with silver studs, as represented in the woodcut below.
The woodcut in our text represents the situation of a boatman called Sandy Smith, and his family, in the plains of Forres.
Our cut is copied from the rare woodcut map in the time of Henry VIII.
The most marked dissimilarity in the volumes issued by the London printers lies in the special woodcut title-page used by each.
The book is further embellished by a woodcut head-piece and an initial letter, representing snow scenes.
The book is ornamented with a few type-metal head- and tail-pieces, and a large initial and a woodcut head-band at the beginning.
The Whitchurch copies have a woodcut border very similar in character to those in use twenty years later, which have the appearance of being related to some of the borders drawn for Plantin.
The title is framed by a border made up of five woodcut panels, carelessly arranged; and some of the initial letters are ornamented.
Thin woodcut head-bands at the beginning of some of the odes, and a tail-piece after the first one, furnish all the ornament for this pathetic volume.
The elaborate woodcut border in the contemporary German style was used by the printer in several other books, before and after this date.
It has been suggested that it was intended to be used with the woodcut border always found with the New Testament in both issues, and usually ascribed to the second, although "there is no ground for supposing that it was always issued with it.
The original leaves ended on page 619, with a large woodcut representing two winged figures supporting a crown and rose.
There are a few woodcut head-bands, varied with others made of type metal, in the front part of the book, but the last part is severely plain.
From "The Looking Glass for the Mind" 291 Woodcut by Bewick.
From "The Looking Glass for the Mind" 286 Woodcutby Bewick.
From "The Looking Glass for the Mind" 289 Woodcutby Bewick.
Page of "Cobwebs to catch Flies" 284 Woodcut by Bewick.
Accompanying this article was a slightly worn woodcut of the colonel in his soldier garb, a cap with the top drawn forward, the visor low over his eyes, and a military overcoat thrown gaily back, exposing his shoulder.
Other uncomplimentary allusions to Wilkes and his proceedings appear in the Public Advertiser, where is a woodcut of an execution, I.
Their shape may best be gathered from the woodcut (fig.
The arrangement of the parts just described, as well as the view of Goette with reference to them, will be best understood from the accompanying woodcut (fig.
The manner in which this takes place is diagrammatically represented in woodcut 6 by the clear line x, and in transverse section in woodcut 7.
In some Elasmobranchii, as shewn in the accompanying woodcut (fig.
A woodcut of the calf helped the reader to understand the mysteries better.
Fine woodcutof the arms of Sir Thomas Elyot on verso of title, and one of Berthelet's 'Lucrece' device on b4^v.
In the present copy the sheet containing the two-page woodcutof Edinburgh, which should appear after 4Y 6 is inserted after 4Z 2.
On M 5^v is a large woodcut of St George and the dragon at beginning of Book II.
The Tune is, Queen Dido,' in verse, with woodcut of the princess and the dragon and also the woodcut of the titlepage repeated.
George', with woodcut of St. George and the Dragon as on title.
Woodcut of the Bellman with verses below on verso of titlepage.
There is a woodcut of the royal arms on verso of titlepage, which occurs again on K3^v at the beginning of the 'Confessions'.
Title within elaboratewoodcut border of the genealogies of the Houses of York and Lancaster (as in E.
Each part has the same woodcut of the Round Table and list of knights facing the titlepage, and a Table of contents.
Part II has a separate titlepage within woodcut border, 'The seconde part of the Famous Historie of Promos and Cassandra.
On verso of titlepage is the note 'Read the Epistle, or reade nothing' within small woodcut titlepage border.
Woodcut portrait of Du Bartas with verses in French and English.
