Produced by Louise Hope, Charlene Taylor, Google Books and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [This e-text includes a few characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. Except for œ, they occur only in quoted material. All are rare: œ (oe ligature) ſ (long s) αβγδ (Greek) āīō (letters with overlines and similar diacritics) If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular, if a diacritic does not appear directly above its letter--or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead. Footnotes have been numbered continuously within each chapter. Monograms and similar symbols are shown in the text with [[double brackets]]. There is no table of contents, but the List of Illustrations gives the same information.] [Illustration: WILLIAM BLAKE. W. J. LINTON. DEATH’S DOOR.] 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. +Second Edition+ with a New Chapter on the Artists of the Present Day BY HENRY G. BOHN And 145 Additional Wood Engravings. LONDON Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. M.DCCC.LXI. [Illustration: Richard Clay / Breads Hill / Sola Lux Mihi Laus / London] NOTICE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The former edition of this History of Wood Engraving having become extremely scarce and commercially valuable, the publisher was glad to obtain the copyright and wood-blocks from Mr. Mason Jackson, son of the late Mr. Jackson, original proprietor of the work, with the view of reprinting it.