A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by William Andrew Chatto, illustrated by John Jackson, is the classic nineteenth-century history of the woodcut and wood engraving. It traces the art from its medieval origins through the German masters and the revival led by Thomas Bewick, and explains the practical methods of cutting and printing from the block.
Lavishly illustrated with examples old and new, the book combines scholarship with technical instruction. It long stood as the standard English work on the subject and remains a valuable reference for the history of the printed image. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.