Cantor lectures on the art of book and newspaper illustration
By: by Henry Blackburn.
Contributors: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
Series: Cantor lectures
Publisher: Printed by William Trounce, 10, Gough Square, Fleet Street, E.C.
Published: 1894
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Illustration of books -- History; Newspapers -- Illustrations
Genres: Illustrations.
Other titles: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Notes: "Delivered before the Society of Arts, November 27, December 4 and 11, 1893."

Printed in double columns.

LC copy has pencil annotations. Front paper cover wanting. Forms part of the personal library materials in the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Illustrator of to-day: education of the artist; drawing for reproduction; modern methods and requirements; examples of drawings for reproduction, good and bad; title: 2. Engraver: on some methods of reproducing drawings and photographs for the press; the substitution of photographs and mechanical engraving for handwork; specimens of the newest processes of illustration; title: 3. Author: his part in the illustration of books; his handwriting; the decorative page; examples of illustration: archaic, decorative, topical; the book of the past; the book of the future.