VII] 



Raised and Incised Lines 



203 



method of printing is thus exactly the same as in the case 

 of type, while in the former the process is reversed and the 

 lines are incised. As a result, there is a harmony about 

 a book illustrated with wood-cuts which cannot, in the 



HAliCACABUM: 

 SOIvAWV^kS: 

 VESICARIVM . 



Text-fig. 106. "Alkekengi" = /',^_)'M&, Winter Cherry 

 [Blankaart, Neder-landschen Herbarius, 1698]. 



nature of things, be attained, when such different processes 

 as printing from raised type, and from incised metal, are 

 brought together in the same volume. 



