Acknowledgments are due to the Council of the Society of Arts for permission to reprint a portion of the Cantor Lectures on “Illustration” from their Journal; to the Editors of the National Review and the Nineteenth Century, for permission to reprint several pages from articles in those reviews; to the Editors and Publishers who have lent illustrations; and above all, to the artists whose works adorn these pages.

H. B.

123, Victoria Street, Westminster.

May, 1894.


CONTENTS.

PAGE.
CHAPTER I.—Introductory[1]
CHAPTER II.—Elementary Illustration[15]
Diagrams—Daily Illustrated Newspapers—Pictorialv. Verbal Description.
CHAPTER III.—Artistic Illustrations[40]
Education of the Illustrator—Line Drawing forProcess—Sketching from Life—Examples of LineDrawing.
CHAPTER IV.—The Processes[102]
“Photo zinco”—Gelatine Process—Grained Papers—MechanicalDots—“Half-tone” Process—WashDrawing—Illustrations from Photographs—Sketch,Graphic, &c.—Daniel Vierge.
CHAPTER V.—Wood Engraving[182]
CHAPTER VI.—The Decorative Page[197]
CHAPTER VII.—Author, Illustrator, & Publisher[211]
Students’ Drawings[223]
Appendix[233]