It is considered unlikely, although not impossible, that the invention of printing passed all at once from xylography to the perfect typography of the punch, matrix, and mold.
They may be also used in photo-xylography and photo-ceramic processes, and also for certain purposes in collotype.
Scriverius said that Lourens Janszoen or Laurens Koster was the inventor of xylography as well as of types.
Third Method, a Combination ofXylography and Typography .
The limitations of xylography are plainly set forth in this review of the more famous block-books.
There was another Chinese method, which, paradoxical as it may seem, was a combination of xylography and typography.
Van der Linde, concerning Haarlem, “on the field of typography may be scanty; on the field of xylography it does not yield anything.
It took up the art of printing at a point [p393] where xylography had failed, and developed it by new ideas and new methods.
It was by them, and for the peculiar requirements of their work, that xylography was invented.
But typography improved while xylography declined; at the end of the fifteenth century, the copies made from type were decidedly superior.
Their preference for the older method of xylography is very plainly shown by the numerous editions of the Donatus.
Xylography is the scientific word for the art of making engravings on a single block of wood, in high relief, for use on the typographic printing press.
We need but look at the development of our art handicrafts--xylography and copper-etching, for instance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "xylography" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
