The Arrangement of the Book | p. 7 |
Introduction: Basic Principles | p. 9 |
The Hand | p. 13 |
The Act of Printing | p. 13 |
Basic printing | p. 13 |
Ink | p. 13 |
Pressure | p. 16 |
Better Printing | p. 19 |
Make-ready | p. 20 |
Design and printing - and three case histories | p. 26 |
Inspecting the print - troubleshooting | p. 34 |
Lowering | p. 36 |
The Act of Engraving | p. 39 |
Holding the tool | p. 40 |
First cuts | p. 41 |
Sampler blocks | p. 43 |
Good habits | p. 46 |
Not addition but subtraction | p. 50 |
The Mind | p. 55 |
The Means to Order | p. 55 |
Designing for Engraving | p. 61 |
Preparing a design | p. 63 |
Putting the design on the block | p. 67 |
Darkening the block | p. 68 |
Transferring the design | p. 69 |
Drawing the design on the wood | p. 73 |
A personal choice | p. 75 |
Designing through engraving | p. 76 |
Choices - Shapes, surfaces and forms | p. 79 |
Choices - Some other example | p. 82 |
Choices - Marks | p. 86 |
Choices - Edges | p. 89 |
Proofing and re-engraving | p. 99 |
The pains to know | p. 102 |
Setting Up | p. 105 |
Blocks | p. 105 |
Engraving tools | p. 110 |
The choice and care of tools | p. 113 |
Other engraving equipment | p. 115 |
Paper | p. 116 |
Ink | p. 118 |
Rollers | p. 119 |
Presses | p. 120 |
Cleaning agents | p. 122 |
Space | p. 122 |
Self-help | p. 123 |
Contacts | p. 124 |
Suppliers | p. 126 |
A beginner's shopping list | p. 127 |
Matters Arising | p. 129 |
Index | p. 159 |
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