[EDITORIAL NOTE.]
The author of "La Gravure," of which work the present volume is a translation, has devoted so little attention to English Engraving, that it has been thought advisable to supplement his somewhat inadequate remarks by a special chapter dealing with this subject.
In accordance with this view, Mr. William Walker has contributed an account of the rise and progress of the British School of Engraving, which, together with his Chronological Table of the better-known English Engravers, will, we feel sure, add much to the value of the Work in the eyes of English readers.
[CONTENTS.]
| 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] | |