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• Wood Engraving (London: Ditchling Press, 1921), by R. John Beedham, contrib. by Eric Gill (HTML at woodblock.com)
• Hand-Book of Wood Engraving (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Emerson (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• The modern woodcut : a study of the evolution of the craft (J. Lane, 1924), by Herbert Ernest Augustus Furst and W. Thomas Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood-block printing : a description of the craft of woodcutting & colourprinting based on the Japanese practice (J. Hogg, 1916), by F. Morley Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The technique of the color wood-cut (Brown-Robertson, 1926), by Walter J. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book of wood engraving, with practical instruction in the art for persons wishing to learn without an instructor; containing a description of tools and apparatus used and explaining the manner of engraving various classes of work, also, a history of the art from its origin to the present time (Lee and Shepard;, 1881), by William Andrew Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some practical hints on wood engraving for the instruction of reviewers and the public (Lee and Shepard;, 1879), by W. J. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze geschichte der holzschneidekunst mit vielen abbildungen der signaturen der berühmtesten älteren meister; nebst einer gründlichen ... zur erlernung der holzschneichen ... zur erlern ung der holzschneidekunst und der modelstecherei und einer anleitung zum zeichnen. (Fischhaber, 1878), by J. M. Rouget (page images at HathiTrust)
• La technique moderne du bois gravé et les procédés anciens des xylographes du XVIe siècle et des maîtres graveurs japonais, recueillis et mis à la portée des artistes et des amateurs. (Delagrave, 1925), by Maurice Busset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Block printing in the school (The Bruce Publishing Company, 1929), by William Seltzer Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints on engraving (Lee and Shepard ;, 1879), by W. J. Linton, Elias James Whitney, J. Gilbert, Henry Howe, Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books, Boston Stereotype Foundry, and Mass.) University Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colour printing with linoleum and wood blocks (Dryad handicrafts, 1925), by Allen W. Seaby and Phyllis Barron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Original-Holzschnitt; eine Einführung in sein Wesen u. seine Technik (E. Reinhardt, 1914), by Max Bucherer and F. Ehlotzky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood-block printing; a description of the craft if woodcutting & colourprinting based on the Japanese practice. With drawings and illus. by the author and A.W. Seaby. (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916), by F. Morley Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The illustrated London drawing book ... (Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853), by Robert Scott Burn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical instruction in the art of wood engraving, for persons wishing to learn the art without an instructor. Containing a description of tools and apparatus used, and explaining the manner of engraving various classes of work. Also a history of the art from its orgin to the present time. (C.J. Batcheller, 1876), by William Andrew Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of wood engraving. A practical handbook. (Winsor and Newton, 1866), by Thomas Gilks (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of instruction in the art of wood engraving. With a description of the necessary tools and apparatus, and concise directions for their use; explanation of the terms used, and the methods employed for producing the various classes of wood engravings. (J. Watson, 1867), by Sarah E. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holzschnittechnik (J.H.E. Heitz, 1912), by Friedrich R. Blau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A third preface to "A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical" : exposing the fallacies contained in the first, restoring the passages suppressed in the second, and containing an account of Mr. John Jackson's actual share in the composition and illustration of that work : in a letter to Stephen Oliver (W.A. Chatto, 1839), by William Andrew Chatto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplément du traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois (Chez Pierre Guillaume Simon ..., 1766), by Jean-Michel Papillon, Dawson Turner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of wood engraving : a practical handbook (Winsor & Newton, 1875), by Thomas Gilks and Winsor & Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le découpage en typographie : ses applications pratiques, procédés & spécimens ([Mantes?] : [publisher not identified], [1895?], 1895), by S. Beaumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood Engraving, by R. J. Beedham, contrib. by Eric Gill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wood-Block Printing: A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice, by F. Morley Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)

• Gravure, en taille-douce, en maniere noire, maniere de crayon, &c., contenant neuf planches. Gravures en pierres fines, contenant trois planches. Gravure en lettres, en géographie et en musique, contenant deux planches. Gravure en médailles et en cachets, contenant cinq planches. Gravure en bois, contenant trois planches. (Panckoucke, 1782), by Augustin Saint-Aubin, Benoît Louis Prévost, J. R. Lucotte, Juste-Nathan Boucher, and Robert Bénard (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Block Printing Craft (Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, c1938), by Raymond W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on Engraving (New York: W. E. Rudge, 1921), by Timothy Cole
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• Gruppierungsversuche im bereiche des ältesten Holzschnittes (J. H. E. Heitz, 1911), by Wilhelm Molsdorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• La grande danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes : précédée du dict des trois mors et dfs trois vifz, du Débat du corps et de l'âme, et de La complaincte de l'ame dampnée. (Paris : Baillieu, libraire, [1862], 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prints and books (Harvard university press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early woodcut initials; containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Methuen and co., 1908), by Oscar Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xylographie de l'imprimerie troyenne pendant le XVe, le XVIe, le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècle, précédée d'une lettre du Bibliophile Jacob, sur l'histoire de la gravure en bois. (Varlot père;, 1859), by Louis Varlot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ältesten deutschen bilder-bibeln. (M. Huttler, 1883), by Richard Muther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facinora dierum. (G. Allen, 1876), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gravures sur bois tirées des livres français du XVe siècle. (A. La bitte, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodcuts, and some words (London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1924., 1924), by Edward Gordon Craig, Howard Coppuck Levis, Campbell Dodgson, Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress), and Temple Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inkunabeln des formschnitts in den bibliotheken zu Eichstätt (J.H.E. Heitz, 1910), by Eichstätt (Germany). Staatliche bibliothek, Johannes Ev. Weis-Liebersdorf, and Eichstätt (Germany). Bischöfliche seminarbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawaii (University of Washington book store, 1928), by Ambrose Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gravi͡ury I.N. Pavlova : (1886-1921) (880-03 Moskva : Gosudarstvennoe izdatelʹstvo, 1922., 1922), by Gosudarstvennyĭ Rumi︠a︡nt︠s︡ovskiĭ muzeĭ. Kabinet gravi︠u︡r, V. I︠A︡. Adari︠u︡kov, and I. N. Pavlov (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of wood-engraving (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and Ireland (Seattle, University of Was- hington book store, 1927), by Richard Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodcuts, and some words ... (Small, Maynard, 1925), by Edward Gordon Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodcuts of the fifteenth century in the John Rylands library, Manchester, reproduced in facsimile with an introduction and notes (University press;, 1915), by John Rylands Library and Campbell Dodgson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japanese illustration ; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan (G. Bell and Sons, 1904), by Edward Fairbrother Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der holzschnitt : von seinen anfängen im XV. jahrhundert bis zur gegenwart (Bruno Cassirer, 1920), by Curt Glaser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The woodcut and wood engraving ... exhibition of relief prints showing the striking fine art effects available in printing. ([R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1961), by Norman Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and works of Henry Wolf (W.P. Truesdell, 1927), by Ralph Clifton Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical : with upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood (H.G. Bohn, 1861), by William Andrew Chatto, John Jackson, Henry G. Bohn, Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress), Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress), and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood-engraving : three essays (The Grolier Club, 1916), by Ruth S. Granniss, Elbridge Kingsley, Timothy Cole, A. V. S. Anthony, and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the ... library of C. Fairfax Murray, esq. : ... sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... (Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1917), by Charles Fairfax Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'escriptura, lo gravat, l'imprempta, lo llibre per Josep Brunet y Bellet ... (Tip. "L'Avenc̜", 1898), by Joseph Brunet y Bellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• [University prints. Series L. Woodcuts and engravings. (The University Prints, 1910), by Mass.) University Prints (Winchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mein Stundenbuch; 165 Holzschnitte (Kurt Wolff, 1928), by Frans Masereel and Thomas Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
• University prints. Student series L. Woodcuts and engravings. (The University prints, 1900), by Mass.) University Prints (Winchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving. (Longmans, 1904), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by William Andrew Chatto, Henry George Bohn, and John Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Anwendung des Holzschnittes zur bildlichen Darstellung von Pflanzen nach Entstehung, Blüthe, Verfall, und Restauration (R. Weigel, 1855), by Ludolph Christian Treviranus (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-line engraving for relief-printing (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1892), by S. R. Koehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872 (C.E. Merrill & co.; [etc., etc.], 1892), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1872 (Wiley, 1874), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving. Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. (J. Wiley & Son, 1875), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die moderne Graphik, Eine Darstellung für deren Freunde und Sammler. (Seeman, 1920), by Hans Wolfgang Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einführung des Leinenpapieres, und den Anfang der Holzschneidekunst in Europa zu erforschen (J.G.I. Breitkopf, 1784), by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf and Johann Christian Friedrich Roch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical (J. W. Bouton, 1881), by William Andrew Chatto, John Jackson, and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-line engraving for relief-printing in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. [Dotted prints, gravures en manière criblée, Schrotblätter) (Government Printing Office, 1892), by S. R. Koehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina. (G. Allen, 1890), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on engraving (W.E. Rudge, 1921), by Timothy Cole, Bruce Rogers, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress), Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress), and William Edwin Rudge (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Holzschneidekunst von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten : nebst zwei Beilagen, enthaltend den Ursprung der Spielkarten und ein Verzeichniss der sämmtlichen xylographischen Werke (C.F. Kunz, 1823), by Joseph Heller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical. With upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood (C. Knight & co., 1839), by William Andrew Chatto and John Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur geschichte und theorie der formschneidekunst. (Weigel, 1837), by C. Fr. v. Rumohr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix, given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas term, 1872 (J. Wiley & Sons, 1880), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiegel menschlicher behaltnis (J. H. E. Heitz, 1910), by Hans Naumannn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tools and materials illustrating the Japanese method of colour-printing : a descriptive catalogue of a collection exhibited in the Museum (Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1913), by Illustration Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Engraving and Edward Fairbrother Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Florentine woodcuts : with an annotated list of Florentine illustrated books (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1897), by Paul Kristeller (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred book plates (De La More Press, 1900), by Thomas Moring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simon Vostre (Aubry, 1862), by J. Renouvier, Georges Duplessis, Aug. Aubry, Simon Vostre, and Imprimerie Louis Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing for printers. A practical treatise on the art of designing and illustrating in connection with typography. Containing complete instruction, fully illustrated, concerning the art of drawing, for the beginner as well as the more advanced student. (Inland Printer Co., 1899), by Ernest Knaufft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese illustration (G. Bell and sons, 1904), by Edward Fairbrother Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ariadne Florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving. With appendix. Given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas term, 1872. (George Allen, 1891), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical (Chatto and Windus, 1861), by William Andrew Chatto, Henry G. Bohn, and John Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of woodcuts (N.S.W. Art in Australia limited ;, 1922), by Lionel Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origines de l'imprimerie en France; conférence faite à la Sorbonne le 13 Octobre 1901 lors de l'assemblée générale de la Société nationale des conférences populaires. (Imprimerie nationale, 1901), by Arthur Christian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aratra pentelici : seven lectures on the elements of sculpture given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1870 (George Allen, 1901), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darf der Holzschnitt als Vorläufer der Buchdruckerkunst betrachtet werden? (O. Harrassowitz, 1895), by Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der edelstein; lichtdrucknachbildung der undatierten ausgabe im besitze der Kgl. bibliothek zu Berlin (B. Cassirer, 1908), by Ulrich Boner, Paul Kristeller, Herzog August Bibliothek, and Preussische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblia pauperum, conteynynge thirty and eight wodecuttes illustrating the liif, parablis, and miraclis offe oure blessid Lord & Saviour Jhesus Crist, with the proper descrypciouns therof extracted fro the originall texte offe Iohn Wiclif... (A. C. Armstrong & son, 1885), by Unwin Brothers (Firm), John Wycliffe, and firm Boosey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward Henry Corbould letters, ca. 1851-1882. (1851), by Edward Henry Corbould, Joseph Lionel Williams, and Charles John Kean (page images at HathiTrust)
• An outline of the history of engraving (s.n., 1881), by William McLennan (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred book plates (Musson, 1919), by Thomas Moring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woodblock printing (I. Pitman, 1916), by F. Morley Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of wood-engraving (Harper & Brothers, 1883), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina : six lectures on wood and metal engraving given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1872 (G. Allen, 1873), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holbein and John Bewick. A chapter in the history of wood-engraving. ([New York, 1902), by Wendell Phillips Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• On wood-engraving ... (Rusking Art Club, 1890), by John P. Davis and Elbridge Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving. (Merrill and Baker, 1890), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur la gravure sur bois et la lithographie. (Imprimé pour H. Beraldi, 1897), by Félix Bracquemond (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical,with upwards of 300 illustrations engraved on wood. (Bohn, 1861), by John Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1,000 quaint cuts : from books of other days including amusing illustrations from children's story books, fables, chap-books, &c., &c., a selection of pictorial initial letters & curious designs & ornaments from original wooden blocks belonging to the Leadenhall Press. (Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press;, 1890), by Charles S. Ricketts and Leadenhall Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimen of designing and engraving on wood (Printed by A. Holland, 1865), by Samuel Smith Kilburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albrecht Altdorfer; a book of 71 woodcuts photographically reproduced in facsimile (Longmans, Green, 1902), by Albrecht Altdorfer and T. Sturge Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable library of the late Rev. Dr. Wellesley : ... comprising Italian writers in verse and prose, including ... Ariosto, Berni, Boccaccio ... scarce Italian folklore and chap books ; ... important and magnificent books on the fine arts ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ..., 8th Nov., 1886, and fourteen following days. (J. Davy & Sons, 1866), by Henry Wellesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal des arts (Henri Beraldi, 1897), by Félix Bracquemond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Cranachs Holzschnitten. Mit einer Einleitung: Des Künstlers Persönlichkeit und sein Werk (Fischer & Franke, 1907), by Lucas Cranach and Benno Ruettenauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving. (Wiley, 1878), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the sixth annual exhibition of Engravings, Woodcuts, Etcings of the XV and XVI centuries. : February 5th-March 8th, 1930. (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 1930), by M. Knoedler & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• (Die) Offenbarung Sankt Johannis, mit den 16 Holzschnitten (Furche-Verlag, 1919), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplément du traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois (Chez Pierre Guillaume Simon ..., 1766), by Jean-Michel Papillon, Dawson Turner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive Holzschnitte; Einzelbilder des XV. Jahrhunderts. (J. H. E. Heitz, 1913), by Paul Heitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Renouned history of Little Red Riding Hood (London : Printed for John Souter, at the School Library, 1819., 1819), by Edmund Hemsted and John Souter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xilografia (Napoli : Da' torchi del Tramater, 1832., 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The masters of wood-engraving (The author;, 1889), by W. J. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of early wood engraving, being impressions of wood-cuts in the possession of the publisher. (William Dodd, 1862), contrib. by William Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• A loan exhibition: l'imagerie populaire, February 18 - March 31, 1949. ([author], 1949), by Cultural Division of the French Embassy and René de Messières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Cranachs Holzschnitten. Mit einer Einleitung: Des Künstlers Persönlichkeit und sein Werk (Fischer & Franke, 1907), by Lucas Cranach and Benno Rüttenauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libri cronicarum ... ab inicio mundi (A. Koberger, 1493), by Hartmann Schedel, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and Michael Wolgemut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Van de geboeders Van Eyck tot op Albrecht Durers aanwezigheid in de Nederlanden (M.H. Binger, 1847), by Georg Rathgeber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buch der natur. (Johannes Bamler, 1478), by von Megenberg Konrad and de Cantimré Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holzschnitte im Kupferstichkabinett des Germanischen National-Museums zu Nürnberg (B. Cassirer, 1913), by Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg and Walter Stengel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early Woodcut Initials: Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, by Oscar Jennings (Gutenberg ebook)
• Drawing for Printers.: A practical treatise on the art of designing and illustrating in connection with typography. Containing complete instruction, fully illustrated, concerning the art of drawing, for the beginner as well as the more advanced student., by Ernest Knaufft (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical, by William Andrew Chatto, Henry G. Bohn, and John Jackson (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of Wood-Engraving, by George Edward Woodberry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)

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