Tracing the history of the woodcut and wood engraving, from the Arts and Crafts movement in the late 1890s up to the present day, this book looks first at the roots of the medium, in the work of Thomas Berwick and William Blake. It goes on to cast an eye over the seminal wood engravers of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Gill, Gibbings, Hermes, Hughes-Stanton and Leighton, putting their work in the wider context of 20th-century art.