 He also executed commissions for one-off engravings such as his illustration for T. S. Eliot's "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees".He professed great disappointment in the way that his illustrations for "Gulliver's Travels" had been subsequently hand-coloured by art students, and complained about the too-light reproduction of the wood engravings for "The Chester Play of The Deluge".Jones gave up engraving because of eye strain.