xylographn.
/ˈzʌɪləɡrɑːf/, /ˈzʌɪləɡraf/, U.S. /ˈzaɪləˌɡræf/ A wood-engraving (i.e. either an engraving on wood, or an impression from one), esp. one of the early period.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting > xylographic material > design or print
woodcut1662
wooden cut1683
wood-engraving1816
wood-print1816
lignograph1844
xylograph1864
chromoxylograph1868
Japanese printc1895
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Xylograph, an engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving.
1878 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxiii. 6 Worked in red, blue and yellow, just as if they were the three colors of a xylograph.
1905 E. Candler Unveiling of Lhasa iv. 67 Xylograph editions of the Lamaist scriptures and lives of the saints.
Derivatives
ˈxylograph v. (transitive) to execute from a wood-engraving.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > engrave in relief [verb (transitive)] > print from wood engraving
xylograph1892
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 31 Mar. 249/2 We have received from Tokio, Japan, a copy of a handsome zylographed life-sized picture of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
xylographer n. /-ˈɒɡrəfə(r)/ a wood-engraver, esp. of the early period.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting > wood-cutter or -engraver
wood-engraver1816
wood-cutter1821
xylographer1824
xylographist1864
1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 264 Many past and present ‘Xylographers’ (or wood-cutters) could do infinitely better.
1859 J. P. Berjeau Biblia Pauperum 15 Six editions of the Biblia pauperum due to the Netherlandish xylographers.
xylographic adj. /-ˈɡræfɪk/ of, pertaining to, or executed by wood-engraving.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [adjective] > wood engraving
xylographic1816
xylographical1816
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 205 Whether the xylographic art took its rise in Italy or Germany, cannot so clearly..be proved.
1881 Athenæum 3 Sept. 310/2 The woodcuts, if..coarse from a xylographic point of view, are admirably characteristic.
1883 I. Taylor Alphabet II. viii. 221 The runes were essentially a xylographic script.
1887 J. H. Hessels Haarlem xv. 53 Xylographic Donatuses.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 31 Mar. 249/2 The zylographic picture is a good specimen of popular art.
xylographical adj. = xylographic adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [adjective] > wood engraving
xylographic1816
xylographical1816
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 176 The covers of books have of late been a fertile source of typographical and xylographical discoveries.
xyloˈgraphically adv. by the method of wood-engraving.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [adverb] > wood engraving
xylographically1887
1887 J. H. Hessels Haarlem xviii. 77 The Doctrinales..were not printed typographically but from wooden blocks (xylographically).
xyˈlographist n. = xylographer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting > wood-cutter or -engraver
wood-engraver1816
wood-cutter1821
xylographer1824
xylographist1864
1864 Sat. Rev. 17 Dec. 758 The Brothers Dalziel are the xylographists, if there is such a word.
xylography n. /-ˈɒɡrəfɪ/ wood-engraving, esp. of the early period or of a primitive kind; also, more widely, printing from wood blocks as distinct from type.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting
wood-cutting1722
wood-engraving1816
xylography1816
lignography1849
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting > printing from wood-blocks
block-printing1816
xylography1816
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards Pref. p. xiii The account which gives the honor of the invention of Xylography to the Cardmakers.
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 75 60 Printing, or rather xylography, is said to have been invented about the beginning of the tenth century.
1855 G. Busk tr. C. Wedl Rudim. Pathol. Histol. Auth. Pref. p. vi The zylography was executed by A. Rosenzweig.
1863 Sat. Rev. 5 Dec. 738/1 The forthcoming edition of the New Testament, illustrated with all the powers of modern xylography.
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