A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical

"A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical" by William Andrew Chatto is a study of wood engraving, probably from the 1800s, that looks at how it grew as an art and a job by looking at its history and how it was done. It tries to fill in the gaps in what people knew about both the ideas behind wood engraving and the actual work of doing it. The writing starts by pointing out that most people don't know much about how wood engraving works. It explains that wood engraving is different from copper engraving by describing how each one makes pictures. The writer says they want to give a full story of the art, based on both doing it themselves and on what happened in the past, setting up a journey through wood engraving's past and how it changed.