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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 428631, member: 56&quot;]Because they are relief prints, wood engravings are more compatible with text.&nbsp; They can be worked into a layout essentially like very big pieces of type.&nbsp; So long as everything is the same height, printing is easy.&nbsp; Wood engravings in books and magazines usually (but not always) have text printed on the reverse because the engraving is just another part of a page.&nbsp; Intaglio prints have to be pulled on a press under pressures that would destroy standard hand set type pieces, so they are usually printed on heavier paper than the rest of the text, have no printing on the reverse, and need to be inserted separately into the published material.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ve seen prints on these boards from the &quot;Picturesque&quot; series (Picturesque America, Picturesque Europe, etc., etc., etc.).&nbsp; Most of the illustrations in those books, and others of the same ilk, were wood engravings.&nbsp; Publications like The London Illustrated News were dependent on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This wood engraving came from an 1873 edition of an American art magazine called The Aldine.&nbsp; I was able to source it because the printing on the back had been digitized and can be found online... easier to find than the image.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]150050[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are wood engravings from the 1930s by a woman named Agnes Miller Parker.&nbsp; Books like &quot;Through the Woods&quot; and &quot;Down the River&quot; featuring her engravings (b&amp;w), including full-page plates, used to be cheap, probably still are, and the illustrations are gorgeous:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=wood+engraving+%22Agnes+Miller+Parker%22&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi20cyuu9reAhVp0YMKHTLHB8EQ_AUIDigB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=wood+engraving+%22Agnes+Miller+Parker%22&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi20cyuu9reAhVp0YMKHTLHB8EQ_AUIDigB" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.ca/search?q=wood+engraving+&quot;Agnes+Miller+Parker&quot;&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi20cyuu9reAhVp0YMKHTLHB8EQ_AUIDigB</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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