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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of Early Prints in the British Museum, Vol. 1: German and Flemish Schools While examining the various technical processes by which the designs afterwards described have been worked out by the engraver, even those persons not unfamiliar with ordinary technical procedures might find themselves at fault in rendering a satisfactory account of some of the methods which have been there adopted. As to the manner in which the ordinary woodcuts of Division 4 (d), for ex ample, were executed on the blocks, and of that by which these blocks were made to yield impressions, not any difficulty could be experienced, but when the examples under Divisions 2 (b) and 5 (e) come under notice, the rationale of their technic may not be so apparent, even if it be not felt to be quite unexplainable. Another striking feature connected with the technical execution of the incu nabula before us is the particular manner in which many of them have been coloured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.