| CHAP. | | PAGE | | I. | The Processes of Early Engraving. The Beginnings of Engraving in Relief. Xylography and Printing with Movable Type | 1 | | II. | Playing Cards. The Dot Manner | 30 | | III. | First Attempts at Intaglio Engraving. The Nielli of the Florentine Goldsmiths. Prints by the Italian and German Painter-Engravers of the Fifteenth Century | 49 | | IV. | Line Engraving and Wood Engraving in Germany and Italy in the Sixteenth Century | 86 | | V. | Line Engraving and Etching in the Low Countries, to the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century | 118 | | VI. | The Beginning of Line Engraving and Etching in France and England. First Attempts at Mezzotint. A Glance at Engraving in Europe before 1660 | 150 | | VII. | French Engravers in the Reign of Louis XIV | 178 | | VIII. | Engraving in France and in other European Countries in the Eighteenth Century. New Processes: Stipple, Crayon, Colour, and Aquatint | 211 | | IX. | Engraving in the Nineteenth Century | 248 | | A Chapter on English Engraving | 287 | | Chronological Table of English Engravers | 331 | | Index | 343 |
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