[2] Before the introduction of photographic processes in the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the standard method of book illustration.

At time of the 1841 census, Jewitt was living at Church House, St Andrew's Road, Headington; besides him, his wife Phoebe and three children, the census returns also record his brother, George Jewitt, a letter-press printer, and his apprentice, Edward Bower, at the same address.

[5] He was considered as one of the ten men suitable to serve as parish constable of Headington in 1844 and 1845.

[6] In 1855 Jewitt was Churchwarden of St Andrew's Church, but later that year made a sudden decision to relocated to London.

[7] Jewitt died on Sunday 30 May 1869 in Camden Square, London, and was buried in Paddington Old Cemetery.