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MODERN METHODS OF ILLUSTRATING BOOKS
Wood, H. Trueman

- London : Elliot Stock 1886 - small 8vo. - original quarter brown cloth with brown paper-covered boards, later paper spine label. - viii, 247 pages. - ISBN none / Order Nr. 32663 - Price: $ 65.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 52.00]

First edition, one of the large paper copies bound thus and printed on better paper (Bridson & Wakeman E50). One chapter on historical methods followed by discussions of all the illustrative methods then in vogue. The contents include: direct photographic methods, Woodbury type and Stannotype, collotype and photolithography, methods of producing surface blocks, production of type blocks from halftone negatives, photographic methods of producing intaglio plates, photogravure, mechanical processes, preparation of drawings for reproduction and books of reference. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.

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ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO-METALLURGY; A MANUAL OF ELECTRO-METAL... by Smee, Alfred ; Shaw. George; Ure, Andrew Three bound in one. Smee is the second edition - revised, corrected, considerably enlarged, Illustrated with electrotypes and numerous woodcuts (37 illustrations in text in addition to the frontispiece of the Royal Coat of Arms relief electrotyped in gold and the vignette on the title page in gold. The title page of the second book, by Shaw, is stained in the upper right quarter and this affects a few pages after that, but in a much lesser way. All three are well-illustrated. Inscribed to Gavin (Bridson) from Geoffrey Wakeman.