[DCRM-L] Alternative to "xylographic"

[Mike Garabedian]

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu> wrote:
> I suppose the attraction of "xylographic" is that it corresponds semantically to "typographic". But we have "woodcut".
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> 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.
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> 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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>> Any suggestions?
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