Considerations on engraving
A 1921 New York book on wood-engraving by Timothy Cole, with a design note by Bruce Rogers, printed by William Edwin Rudge for collectors and printers. The first picture is a profile portrait of a woman with a laurel-like wreath of leaves and blossoms, engraved in soft tonal lines and signed in the lower right, showing how fine wood engraving can model skin and hair with gradients. The second is a decorative woodcut initial T inside an ornate frame with grotesque masks, scrolls and a wreath, offering a model for display letters and ornamental borders.
