Definition of "glyptography" []

• The art or process of carving or engraving on precious stones. (noun)

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• "Tate Gallery, from Felix Summerley to a Hollyer photograph, from the introduction of glyptography to the pictures in the _Daily Chronicle_, demand notice."
• "Etruscan glyptography has not a transitional period, 140."
• "There is one peculiarity to be noted in the glyptography of the"