Some practical hints on wood engraving for the instruction of reviewers and the public
A short technical treatise on wood engraving by the English-born American engraver W. J. Linton, published in Boston and New York in 1879 to teach critics and general readers how cuts are made and judged. The plates are demonstration blocks: white lines cut from solid black, a facsimile of an early German woodcut head with radiating rays, and dense cross-hatched woodland and stream scenes that show how line spacing builds tone.
