photogravure
Americannoun
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any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
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the plate.
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a print made from it.
noun
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any of various methods in which an intaglio plate for printing is produced by the use of photography
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matter printed from such a plate
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Photogravure from Painting by A. Kivsh�nko When he had gone about forty versts, he again stopped to feed the horses and to rest in the vestibule of a hostelry.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author. 6s.
From Tales From J?kai by J?kai, M?r
With 20 Illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan, and a Frontispiece in Photogravure from an engraving by Albrecht D�rer.
From A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Co., October 1909 by Methuen & Co.
Finely illustrated from the author's own photographs and containing a Photogravure frontispiece of the author.
From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.
With Biography brought up to date, and Photogravure Portrait of Count Leo Tolstoi. 6s.
From Tales From J?kai by J?kai, M?r
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