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Excerpt from Process Engraving: Formulas, Equipment, and Methods of Working
Before the invention of movable types, which made printing, as we now understand it, possible, pages were cut and printed as a whole, and rough illustrations, or initial letters, or bits of ornament were cut with the type and all printed together. In this way the page was one complete integer; the illustrations were as much a part of the printed page as the letters were, and everything was combined into a harmonious, and, sometimes, very beautiful whole.
With the invention of movable types the illustrations, or decorations, were necessarily cut separately, but the early masters had precedent to follow, and their illustra tions, while made up Of finer lines, or more intricate shad ings, were drawn and engraved so that they, also, were an integral part of the page. Then more ambitious attempts at illustration were made by Guilio Romano, Collot, Cruikshank, and others, beginning with copper etchings.
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