Illustrating Animals and Visualizing Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias by Rose Roberto

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Le livre imprimé en milieu arménien ottoman aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles by Raymond H. Kévorkian

“…Obviously, the role of several printers aroud 1700 and technical progress in wood engraving was important. The article also deals with publishing interests and reading practices.…”
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Los mapas de la Nueva Geografía de Colombia de Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1901-1902) by David Alejandro Ramírez Palacios

“…The works of the Colombian geographer, cartographer and historian Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860-1914) —and his cartographic works in particular—, is beginning to be known and valued by Colombian and international historiography. His maps, wood-engraved, sum up more than two hundreds, most of them distributed between the final edition of his Nueva Geografía de Colombia (1901-1902) and his Atlas completo de geografía colombiana (1906-1910). …”
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Blindness and Design: Kneass’ Philadelphia Magazine for the Blind (1899) by Vanessa Warne

“…This essay situates these woodcuts within the context of late-Victorian celebrity, the aesthetic revival in woodcut and wood-engraved illustration, and the increasing presence of the authorial portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction. …”
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Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation (1902) by Sarah Parker

“…This essay situates these woodcuts within the context of late-Victorian celebrity, the aesthetic revival in woodcut and wood-engraved illustration, and the increasing presence of the authorial portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction. …”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…With a list of contributors that included Thackeray, Horace Mayhew, and Gilbert à Beckett and centrally dependent on both etched and wood engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank and H. …”
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