Table of Contents:
  • Pictorial perils: the rise of American illustration / Neil Harris
  • Dobson's Encyclopaedia: a precedent in American engraving / Judy L. Larson
  • The publication of illustrated natural histories in Philadelphia, 1800-1850 / Georgia B. Barnhill
  • "Messengers of love, tokens of friendship": gift-book illustrations by John Sartain / Katharine Martinez
  • F.O.C. Darley's outline illustrations / Sue W. Reed
  • Tools of persuasion: the American architectural book of the nineteenth century / Neville Thompson
  • The arts and crafts book in America / Susan Otis Thompson
  • Drawn in ink: book illustrations by Howard Pyle / Elizabeth H. Hawkes
  • The development of photomechanical book illustration / Lois Olcott Price.