The Wood Engravers' Self-Portrait

Introduction Approaching engravings: medium and the parasite
1 A wordless memoir: the illustrator as archivist

Part I The Dalziel family and their 'woodpecker' employees, 1839-1893
2 'The print of [her] feet' (Wordsworth): the wood engravers' self portrait
3 Ruskin's sinisterity: disjointed hands and brains, and the division of art labour
4 Barnaby Rudge and 'the atmosphere of letters' (Craik): apprenticeship, education and employment
5 Ghostwriting the line of the other: Wilkie Collins's After Dark, and Dalziel's freelance engravers
6 'This midnight forger' (Trollope): signatures, authorship, and relations between engravers and draughtspeople

Part II Medium and technique at Dalziel Brothers
7 'Off with her head!' (Carroll): execution, technical violence, and the discipline of visual culture
8 'These many ingenious adaptations of photography' (Dalziel): photography and wood engraving, from Eadweard Muybridge to Julia Margaret Cameron
9 'A peculiar brilliancy of black' (DeVinne): the colour of monochrome, and Thomas Dalziel's The May Queen
10 Speed, print, news

Conclusion
11 Greedy rats -- .