This essay on the Brooklyn-born (March 27, 1855) master wood engraver and bookplate designer John W. Evans, written by Cornelia Eames Neltnor Anthony of West Chicago, IL, may have appeared in the 1936 Yearbook of the Washington, DC-based American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers (Sewanee, TN: University of Swanee Press, 1937): an article with this title was published inthis volume: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bookplates-1936-john-evans-james-163215225 . 

Evans, reported by Anthony in this typescript on [p. 1], "has born the unofficial title of the last of the great wood engravers."  He studied beginning at the age of seventeen with P. R. B. Pierson, "the leading wood engraver of his time." 

Anthony was an elocutionist in the 19th C., traveled around North America with her spouse, Frank Anthony, in the first third of the 20th C., and was based in her father's homestead, Grove Place, at West Chicago, IL.  She gave a large, 10,000-item collection of bookplates to the West Chicago, IL, public library.  A smaller but representative group of plates, with many duplicates of her own plates and her family's, some by Evans, 1936-37, according to this essay, was inherited by her nephew Edwin Neltnor Asmann (d. 1991) of Lake Forest (alumnus of LF College, 1927), and he in turn donated this group to this library in the 1980s.