The engraver was doing his work delicately, secretly, but he was at work, and it was Ernest's hand that guided the steel as it left its deepening grooves.
Those, however, are undoubtedly the productions either of engravers or of their scholars who copied their works.
Tired of the sea, for awhile he obtained employment with a medallist, where his skill as an engraver stood him in good stead.
When necessary, after each operation, a resinous grain may be applied in the manner usual with engravers.
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The type and only known specimen was first mechanically prepared with a compressed airengraver.
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They are mostly plants, a rare subject for eitherengraveror painter.
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Anengraveris thanked (p. lviii), but it is clear that the music has in fact been typeset on a computer.
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The meticulous art of theengraver, for instance, can be used in the making of the finest precision instruments.
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Only three engravers in the pottery industry are involved in the whole of the year.
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One has to work in close collaboration with theengraver.
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Six of the young people from the first year's pilot scheme subsequently went on to become self-employed glass engravers.
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It seems that the union which represents processing engravers and printers have instructed their members to refuse to process work other than from studios employing union members.
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The chiefengraveradapted his earlier work for the obverse.
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A man of high standards, as were his successors; he was a superbengraver, engraving becoming the foundation of the firm; lithography would follow later.
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He was a pharmacist, apothecary, printer,engraver/etcher, bookseller, stationer, publisher, bookbinder, librarian/owner of a circulating library, and stereotyper/stereotype founder.
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Very few master engravers exist today who rely solely on feel and muscle memory to sharpen tools.
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There a staff of engravers would use the sketches to create engravings on blocks of boxwood.
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Some penmen also gave scope to his skill as anengraverof specimens of calligraphy.
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The original tenants were graphic art professionals, including a commercialengraver, a photographer, and art studios.
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