[DCRM-L] Alternative to "xylographic"

[Noble, Richard]

I suppose the attraction of "xylographic" is that it corresponds
semantically to "typographic". But we have "woodcut".

How to phrase it? "First word is a woodcut", "First word is woodcut",
"First word is printed from a woodcut block"? I ask, because in ordinary
discourse there's a strong pictorial connotation to "woodcut", where the
technical term "xylographic" simply means "printed from wood", with the
understanding that it's from a block,  not wood type.

Anyway, "woodcut"--or "wood engraving", if we're describing such a
thing--does seem like the best candidate.

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>wrote:

>  In an effort to drop obscure vocabulary in catalog records, I'm casting
> about for another way to word a note on the fact that a word or block of
> text is printed from a wood block instead of metal type. The ESTC uses it
> extensively: e.g., http://estc.bl.uk/S120001
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