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  [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.

It will be seen by the two distinct prefaces which accompanied the
former edition, and are here reprinted, that there was some existing
schism between the joint producers at the time of first publication. Mr.
Jackson, the engraver, paymaster, and proprietor, conceived that he had
a right to do what he liked with his own; while Mr. Chatto, his literary
coadjutor, very naturally felt that he was entitled to some recognition
on the title-page of what he had so successfully performed. On the book
making its appearance without Mr. Chatto's name on the title-page, and
with certain suppressions in his preface to which he had not given
consent, a virulent controversy ensued, which was embodied in a pamphlet
termed "a third preface," and afterwards carried on in the _Athenaeum_ of
August and September, 1839. As this preface has nothing in it but the
outpourings of a quarrel which can now interest no one, I do not
republish any part of it; and looking back on the controversy after the
lapse of twenty years, I cannot help feeling that Mr. Chatto had
reasonable ground for complaining that his name was omitted, although I
think Mr. Jackson had full right to determine what the book should be
called, seeing that it was his own exclusive speculation. It is not for
me to change a title now so firmly established, but I will do Mr. Chatto
the civility to introduce his name on it, without concerning myself with
the question of what he did or did not do, or what Mr. Jackson
contributed beyond his practical remarks and anxious superintendence.

Although I have the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Chatto,
and communicated to him my intention of republishing the work,
I declined letting him see it through the press; resolving to stand
wholly responsible for any alterations or improvements I might choose to
make. On the other hand, I have been quite as chary of letting even the
shade of Mr. Jackson raise a new commotion--I say the shade, because,
having his own copy full of manuscript remarks, it was at my option to
use them; but I have adopted nothing from this source save a few
palpable amendments. What additions have been made are entirely my own,
and have arisen from a desire to increase the number of illustrations