Plates to Accompany Victorian Book Illustration
by Wakeman, Geoffrey
Limited edition: Number 23 of 23 copies
Price: $1,500.00
- Bookseller: Dawson's Book Shop
- Seller Inventory #: WAS42290
- Book condition: Fine
- Edition: Limited edition: Number 23 of 23 copies
- Binding: Hardcover
- Place: The Plough Press, Loughborough
- Date published: 1974
Book Description
The Plough Press, Loughborough, 1974. Limited edition: Number 23 of 23 copies. Fine. 15 x 10 inches, 20 pages, marbled boards with leather spine, matching marbled slipcase, spine lightly sunned, Each opening has a caption page on the left-hand side and an original specimen illustration on the right-hand side. Contains 20 original illustrations, as follows: 1) Wood engraving--1845 2) Etching 3) Hand-colored steel engraving 4) Baxter print 5) Tinted lithograph 6) Leighton Brothers print (relief wood blocks) 7) Anastatic print 8) Chemitype 9) Nature Print 10) Natural Illustration (pressed grass specimen) 11) Wood engraving--1865 12) Photograph (reproducing an old painting) 13) Photolithograph 14) Chromolithograph 15) Woodburytype 16) Collotype 17) Photogravure 18) Halftone 19) Color printing (relief print by Edward Evans from a Caldecott book) 20) Color halftone .
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