Specimens of early wood engraving : being impressions of woodcuts from the collection of Mr. Charnley, Newcastle
A privately printed 1858 Newcastle-upon-Tyne specimen book by Emerson Charnley, with notes by William Dodd, gathering impressions of early woodcuts from Charnley's own collection for collectors and antiquarians. Its pages show small chapbook-style woodcut vignettes of tavern scenes, horsemen, courtiers, animals, and sea voyages, and a designer might take their compact narrative framing, dense hatching, and clustered page layouts as models for black-and-white editorial spot illustration.
