rations in this book have been reproduced by mechanical
processes, excepting nine_ (marked on the list), which are engraved on
wood.

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--Pictorial _v._ Verbal
Description.

CHAPTER III.--ARTISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS 40

Education of the Illustrator--Line Drawing for
Process--Sketching from Life--Examples of Line Drawing.

CHAPTER IV.--THE PROCESSES 102

"Photo zinco"--Gelatine Process--Grained Papers--Mechanical
Dots--"Half-tone" Process--Wash Drawing--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

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[_The copyright of all pictures sketched in this book is strictly
reserved._]

PAGE
"The Trumpeter." Sir John Gilbert, R.A. (_Process_) vi
Swans. Charles Collins " ix
"Ashes of Roses." G. H. Boughton, A.R.A. " 5
"Badminton in the Studio." R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. " 6
"A Son of Pan." William Padgett " 11
"Home by the Ferry." Edward Stott " 12
Man in Chain Armour. Lancelot Speed