Abundant evidences of the versatility of his xylographic talent, are scattered throughout the present volume, of which, though not the author in a literary sense, he was at least the conductor and proprietor.
In endeavouring to give some indication of xylographic art-progress in England, he has made no attempt at completeness, and has said nothing whatever of foreign art, which has progressed quite as rapidly as our own.
The Ars Memorandi, another xylographic work, of which the subject, taken from the New Testament, was equally well adapted to the imagination of the artists, had also a glorious destiny.
Xylographic figure from the Ars Moriendi, copied in reverse in the Art au Morier.
It is a recognised fact that the single sheet with a printed figure preceded the xylographic book in which text and illustration were cut in the same block.
Junius, as we see, attributes to Laurent Coster the first impression of the Speculum, no longer the purely xylographic impression of the Donatus from an engraved block, but that of the more advanced manner in movable types.
It should be well established that engraving in relief on wood alone gave the idea of making xylographic blocks and of composing books.
The first books then were formed of sheets of paper or parchment, laboriously printed from xylographic blocks, that is to say wooden blocks on which a tailleur d'images had left in relief the designs and the letters of the text.
Typographic printing had long before superseded Xylographic printing, that is, printing from a solid block of wood on which type of an entire page were cut individually by hand.
There is nothing the least extraordinary in such a mistake when it can be explained by the carelessness of a compositor of movable type, but such a mistake would really be incredible on the part of a xylographic workman.
In most of the xylographic books, indeed, the first page is quite without ornamentation.
One glance at the ancient xylographic collections is enough to disclose the spirit in which such work was undertaken, and the design with which it was conceived.
Where playing cards were first used, or whether any particularxylographic collection belongs or not to the first years of the fifteenth century, are matters of extremely small importance in his eyes.
Why should the cutters of xylographic figures have been an exception to the general rule?
And those xylographicspecimens which are usually looked upon as the oldest examples of engraving, are in reality only the outcome of a reformation, and the product of an art already modified.
If he meant any product of xylographic printing, the statement is totally false, and deserves no consideration.
A xylographic block may be an engraving of letters only, of pictures only, or of both letters and pictures, but in all cases the engraving is fixed on [p027] the block.
This is the name of an early block-book almost as famous as the Bible of the Poor, and of which there are at least six distinct xylographic editions.
The xylographic editions of this work which contain the names of the printers are in the German language.
So treated, the composed types were made as solid as a xylographic block or a stereotype plate.
It is admitted by all authorities, that xylographic prints were made during the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and that xylographic books were in use before typography was introduced.
All copies of the xylographic Donatus are printed on parchment, on both sides of the leaf, and in black ink.
In this third illustration, the lines of type are separated by leads,[151] but the types stand more unevenly in line than the letters of any xylographic book.
How many xylographic editions of the book were printed has never been ascertained, but we are led to believe that the number was large when we learn that more than fifty editions were printed from types before the year 1500.
It cannot be supposed that Gutenberg was so ignorant of the productions of German formschneiders that he believed xylographic printing was done only in Holland.
It has been claimed that the engraver of these xylographic blocks was the probable inventor of typography.
These xylographic pages are distributed in irregular order, as if by accident, as will be shown by the italic figures, which represent these pages, in the following table.
This rare and curious volume is generally considered as being the second attempt in xylographic printing, the priority being given to the Ars Memorandi.
How and why these xylographic pages appear in a book whose remaining forty-two pages are printed from types is a mystery.
Moreover, no entirely xylographic Speculum exists to lend colour to such a theory.
Besides its lack of illustrations, the xylographic Donatus is unique among block-books from the fact that it was printed on vellum and not on paper, and (another unusual feature) on both sides of the leaf.
Large numbers were printed both from blocks and from type, but xylographic fragments are scarce, and none are known of any date before the second half of the fifteenth century.
I fared nearly as ill in a case, where I took of Stibbs of Museum Street a worm-eaten xylographic block, which placed it in my power to convert five guineas into two; and I fear that the buyer at the lower figure did not bless me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "xylographic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
