Chap-books of the eighteenth century
A late nineteenth-century collection by John Ashton, published in London by Chatto and Windus in 1882, reproducing eighteenth-century chapbook woodcuts for readers interested in popular cheap print. The pictures are small, crude black-and-white woodcuts with hatched shading, rough outlines and stacked panels, showing domestic interiors, street scenes and figures in period dress; a designer could take their economical line work, panel layouts and folk-print character.
