Quotes About Engraver

The son of London laborers, Smith was an engraver who taught himself to read Assyrian cuneiform during lunch hours in the British Museum.

Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like Be sure to open a window. They did have instructions like Adde Aqua Quirmis to the Zinc untile Rising Gas Yse Vigorousky Evolved, but never added Don't Doe Thys Atte Home or even And Say Fare-Thee-Welle to Thy Eyebrows.