Crossword-Solution: XYLOGRAPHY 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 29

Etym: [Photo- + xylography.] Defn: The process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.

Etym: [Xylo- + -graph.] Defn: An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.

Some early fifteenth century documents discovered at Avignon make unmistakable references to printing, and not to xylography, and from them we learn that Procopius Waldfoghel, a silver-smith of Prague, was engaged in printing at Avignon in 1444, and had undertaken to cut a set of Hebrew types for a Jew whom he had previously instructed in the art of printing.

Van Der Linde arrives in his chapter on “The Spread of Typography in the Netherlands,” is as follows:-- “The harvest of history on the field of typography concerning Haarlem may be scanty; it does not yield _anything_, as far as xylography goes.

Ambroise-Firmin Didot, “when the art of making paper--that art familiar to the Chinese from the beginning of our era--spread in Europe and became generally known, that the reproduction, by pressing, of texts, figures, playing-cards, &c., first by the tabular process, called _xylography_ (block-printing), then with movable types, became easy, and was consequently to appear simultaneously in different places.” [Illustration: Fig.