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A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING.
![Fig. 74.—Death as a Throttler.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/History_of_Wood_Engraving_0172.jpg/400px-History_of_Wood_Engraving_0172.jpg)
Fig. 74.—Death as a Throttler.
vorable examples, remain inferior for the most part to either the English or French.
Wood-engraving, however, has been practised in our time less as a fine art than as a useful art; and if little that is valuable for artistic worth has been executed by engravers since the days of Nesbit, Clennell, and Thompson, the application of wood-engraving for merely useful purposes has