A Treatise on Wood Engraving: Historical and Practical with Upwards of Three Hundred Illustrations Engraved on Wood

xvi, 664 pp. A Treatise on Wood Engraving: Historical and Practical with Upwards of Three Hundred Illustrations Engraved on Wood, by John Jackson. The Historical Portion by W.A. Chatto. With a New Chapter on the Artists of the Present Day, by Henry G. Bohn, and 145 Additional Wood Engravings. CONTENTS: Antiquity of Engraving; Progress of Wood Engravings; The Invention of Typography; Wood Engravinngs in Connexion with the Press; Wood Engraving in the Time of Albert Durer; Further Progress and Decline of Wood Engravings; Revival of Wood Engraving; Artists and Engravers on Wood of the Present Day; The Practice of Wood Engraving.