A Guide to Nineteenth Century Colour Printers

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Description: Plates. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo 0902813048 Illustrated boards. No... Plates. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo 0902813048 Illustrated boards. No ownership inscription. xii, 127 pages clean and tight. A little annotation.

Description: Despatched from UK within 24hrs of picking the item. Published... Despatched from UK within 24hrs of picking the item. Published by Plough Press in 1975. Hardback. Number of pages: 139. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear.

Description: Inscribed by Geoffrey Wakeman on the verso of the title: "This... Inscribed by Geoffrey Wakeman on the verso of the title: "This edition limited to 550 copies (all the publishers could afford at the time). Geoff." Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Limited edition of 550 copies. Decorated cloth, 22 cm, xii, 127 pp, ills. From the preface: "The authors have often been asked while compiling this book what they mean by colour illustration. For our purpose it is largely defined as an illustration which has passed more than once through the press. We have thus included tinted work on the grounds that printers often started in this way who later progressed to full-scale colour work. We have included as many printers as we could find whose work appeared in books. Very occasionally a printer has been included of whose work no example has yet been found. Lithographic artists are not included...The book deals only with British printers; continental firms...have generally been excluded unless they had a London office." A valuable guide to some 222 firms whose colour-printed work has been identified in books. From a contemporary review: "Firms are recorded in alphabetical order, their history is sketched in briefly but adequately when known, and there are details of their earliest and latest known publications; other works are noted if they have some special significance. Short technical descriptions help to clarify the processes used, and many entries indicate further sources of information. Lastly, addresses of the printing establishments are recorded, with the operating dates for each of the premises. Thus we are offered more than a mere directory of printers. Something of a firm's likely relevance to a particular line of research may be gauged from the entries, for this collection of information is clearly the fruit of a long and detailed association with the original material, and this has led to full appreciations of individual publications in relation to the development of the numerous colour printing processes of the time. "

Description: 127pp. illus. Pictorial cloth. Library cancel else fine.... 127pp. illus. Pictorial cloth. Library cancel else fine. Alphabetical list of British printers, with examples of work. Fully indexed Invaluable work of reference. From the preface: "The authors have often been asked while compiling this book what they mean by colour illustration. For our purpose it is largely defined as an illustration which has passed more than once through the press. We have thus included tinted work on the grounds that printers often started in this way who later progressed to full-scale colour work. We have included as many printers as we could find whose work appeared in books. Very occasionally a printer has been included of whose work no example has yet been found. Lithographic artists are not included (subject to the difficulty sometimes of deciding whether someone signing a plate 'lith' was the artist or the printer). Generally speaking confirmation that such a man was a printer has been decided from the directories listing him as such. The book deals only with British printers; continental firms. have generally been excluded unless they had a London office. The nineteenth century reading public saw a most fascinating period of invention, diversification and evolution in colour printing methods, as these developed from a craft to a major technological industry. Many of the artistic craftsmen, technologists and businessmen who made this remarkable development possible form the substance of this book. The use of colour in book illustration was already firmly established at the beginning of our period-either as purely decorative embellishment or as the means of increasing the communication value of factual illustration. Slow and expensive methods of hand finishing prints with watercolour or the printers' equivalent of painting, the copperplate [], provided the wealthy few with coloured books of a very high order of craftsmanship. But by the 1850s the tremendous growth in a new class of reading public and the consequent growth in edition sizes, coupled with the need for speedier and cheaper methods of production rendered these hand methods largely obsolete and already a sizeable colour printing industry was growing up. Hand-operated presses were used to produce work which was quite remarkable for its brilliance, craftsmanship and diversity. All classes of reader were now served, from the wealthy clientele for Day's vast chromolithographed folios down to the man in the street for whom books were available cheaply with plates colour printed by Dickes or Evans. The burst of inspiration which colour facilitated in children's books in the latter part of the century is too well known to require comment. The names of the printers producing these different classes of work were still essentially those of craftsmen, inventors, or artists in colour, and the work of their presses bore a stamp of personality that the modern collector instantly recognizes. Inscribed by Geoffrey Wakeman on the verso of the title: "This edition limited to 550 copies (all the publishers could afford at the time).