Mason Jackson’s The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress (1885) traces the history of illustrated news from early broadsides to the great Victorian picture papers. Jackson, an art editor of The Illustrated London News, describes how images were gathered, engraved, and printed alongside reporting.
The book chronicles the rise of the illustrated newspaper and the artists and engravers who supplied its pictures, offering a vivid record of a now-vanished craft. It is a valuable history of visual journalism and the printed image in the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB of this pioneering study of news illustration.