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Patents for Lithography, Engraving & Block-Making

GROUP OF SEVEN PATENTS DEALING WITH LITHOGRAPHY, ENGRAVING AND BLOCK-MAKING

- London : n.p. 1890-95 - 4to. - disbound - 2 ; 2 ; 17 followed by folded drawing ; 3+(1) followed by folded drawing; 4; 2; 4 - Order Nr. 89875 - Price: $ 250.00

The following patent specifications : 1. Improvements in Preparing the Surfaces of Lithographic Stones.2. Improvements in the Production and Application of Printing Blocks and Lithographic Printing Surfaces. 3. Improvements in Machines for Printing Intaglio Engravings, part of which are Applicable to Typographic or Lithographic Printing Machines Generally. 4. An Improved Mechanical Engraver and Mean of Actuating Same. 5. Improvements in or Relating to Etching Grounds. An Improved Manufacture of electrotype Printing Blocks. 7. An Improved Stereotyping Process. Dating from the 1890s they reflect the rapid mechanization of all aspects of the printer's art. All have the stamp of the Patent Library Nottingham. The pages are slightly tanning and have very slight edgewear, being protected in a plastic sleeve.

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> Schenck, David H., DIRECTORY OF THE LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTERS OF SCOTLAND 1820-1870.

MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE ... by Kroll, Ernest (editor) Limited to 100 numbered copies. Design based on the Japanese flutter-book. Six letters from Marianne Moore to Ralph Block concerning an article in The Dial (January 1927), concerning a forthcoming Dial article discounting motion pictures as an art form to which Moore sought a reply. Moore (1887-1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer who served as editor of The Dial, a literary and cultural journal, from 1925 to 1929. Block (1889-1974) was an American film producer and screenwriter, president of the Screen Actors Guild, 1934-5. Foreword by the editor. Text of the letters and the article included. Notes and colophon. With Addendum loosely inserted thanking the Moore estate for permission to reprint the unpublished letters.