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Additional authors

1. Bye, Cecil, 1910-2009
2. Gibbs, Clifford, 1921-1997

Description

1. 728 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm

Summary

1. "This book offers--for the first time since the process was in its heyday--a detailed account of how chromolithographs were made. But whereas contemporary writers focused on the methods and practices of their own time, the author traces their evolution over a period of a hundred years. Some of the methods he describes and illustrates are so extraordinary that they require readers in our digital age to suspend their disbelief. Drawing on a variety of sources--manuals, journals, correspondence, preparatory drawings, proofs, interviews with people in the trade, as well as the products themselves--he provides fascinating insights into the methods and skills of the chromolithographer"--Dust jacket front flap.

Alternative title

1. Chromolithography

Subject

1. Chromolithography
2. Chromolithography > History
3. History

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. pt. 1. From 1818 to about 1970 -- pt. 2. The lithographic trade -- pt. 3. How a chromolithograph was made -- pt. 4. Several processes in one.

Call number

1. MDP+ 16-26

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-692) and index.

Author

1. Twyman, Michael, author.

Title

1. A history of chromolithography : printed colour for all / Michael Twyman.

Publisher

1. London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2013.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-692) and index.

Added author

1. Bye, Cecil, 1910-2009, dedicatee.
2. Gibbs, Clifford, 1921-1997, dedicatee.

Spine title

1. Chromolithography

ISBN

1. 0712357106 (British Library)
2. 9780712357104 (British Library)
3. 9781584563204 (Oak Knoll Press)
4. 1584563206 (Oak Knoll Press)

Research call number

1. MDP+ 16-26