The pictorial press: its origin and progress
Mason Jackson's 1885 history of illustrated journalism, published in London by Hurst and Blackett, traces news pictures from broadsides and ballad sheets to the Victorian weeklies, written for printers, journalists and collectors. Its plates reproduce crude early woodcuts and later wood-engravings: crowds of hatted men, executions, meteor falls, portents and street scenes, useful for blunt black-line figures and period lettering.
