ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies a clear-cut narrative of discovery is a chimera, for technologies depend on the overlapping efforts of individuals and industries. It examines a very little scholarship on developments in Victorian printing technology other than Brian Maidment's work on wood engraving. The chapter also examines the lack of scholarship on the history of illustration technology both exciting and daunting. It determines that the most important developments in reproduction occurred in periodicals. The chapter focuses on image reproduction in London even though there were similar developments in other publishing hubs, including New York, Berlin, and Paris. It looks at text and image holistically and to consider the editorial stance of magazines that used process reproduction. It is important to contextualize photographically reproduced pen-andink sketches in relation to adjoining text and images, for each image is potentially in conversation with surrounding content.
