| Description |
208 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Print families -- 1. The three types of print -- 2. Other images known as prints -- 3. Manual prints and process prints -- 4. Monochrome prints and colour prints -- Manual prints -- 5. Woodcuts -- 6. Wood engravings -- 7. Metal relief prints -- 8. Modern relief methods -- 9. Engravings -- 10. Etchings -- 11. Drypoints -- 12. Line engravings -- 13. Steel engravings -- 14. Crayon manner and stipple engravings -- 15. Soft ground etchings -- 16. Mezzotints -- 17. Aquatints -- 18. Other total methods in intaglio -- 19. Lithographs -- 20. Transfer lithographs -- 21. Chiaroscuro woodcuts -- 22. Colour woodcuts -- 23. Tinted wood engravings and colour wood engravings -- 24. Relief colour from metal blocks -- 25. Modern relief methods in colour -- 26. Colour mezzotints, aquatints, stipple engravings -- 27. Tinted lithographs -- 28. Colour lithographs -- 29. Baxter prints -- 30. Nelson prints -- 31. New methods in colour -- Process prints -- 32. Categories of process print -- 33. Line blocks -- 34. Relief halftones -- 35. Nature prints -- 36. Photogalvanographs -- 37. Line photogravures -- 38. Tone photogravures -- 39. Gravures (machine-printed) -- 40. Collotypes -- 41. Photolithographs -- 42. Relief -- 43. Intaglio -- 44. Planographic -- Screenprints and non-prints -- 45. Screenprints -- 46. Monotypes and cliches-verre -- 47. Images with printed text -- 48. Words below the image : what they say -- 49. Words below the image : how they look -- 50. The plate mark -- 51. How the ink lies -- 52. Varieties of line -- 53. Varieties of tone -- 54. Varieties of face -- 55. Differences -- 56. The pleasure of oddities -- 57. Is the image printed? -- 58. Original or reproduction? -- 59. Embossing -- 60. Lift ground -- 61. States -- 62. Ruling machines, multiple tint tools, medal engraving -- 63. Prepared, manufactured and mechanical tints -- 64. Colour print or coloured print? -- 65. Tint or colour? -- 66. Colour from one or more impressions? -- 67. Colour separation -- 68. Register -- 69. How many printed colours? -- 70. Paper -- 71. Process, mechanical : stereotyping -- 72. Process, chemical : electrotyping -- 73. Process, photochemical -- 74. Halftone screens -- 75. Illustrated books -- 76. Postcards -- 77. Banknotes and stamps -- 78. Newspapers and magazines -- 79. Around the house -- 80. A print vocabulary : a guide to consistent usage -- 81. Select bibliography -- 82. The Sherlock Holmes approach -- 107. Glossary - index |
| Summary |
"Since its first publication in 1986, this comprehensive guide has established itself as the essential reference book for print and book collectors, dealers in prints and illustrated books, art librarians, art professors and students, and everyone interested in graphic art."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed: 1986 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Prints -- Technique.
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Prints -- Technique -- History.
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Prints -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
00002584 |
| ISBN |
0500284806 (paperback) |
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