Research Catalog

Victorian book design and colour printing

Title
Victorian book design and colour printing / Ruari McLean.
Author
McLean, Ruari
Publication
  • London : Faber & Faber Limited, 1972.
  • ©1972

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextUse in library Z116.A3 M25 1972q OversizeOff-site

Details

Description
xii, 241, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color); 30 cm
Summary
"Colour printing and the decoration and illustration of books and their bindings flourished in England in an extraordinary and unprecedented way between about 1830 and 1880. Ruari McLean describes how the period begins with the introduction of chromolithography and the inventions of Baxter and others, and ends with the introduction around 1880 of photo-mechanical methods, which spelled the death of old hand crafts whose triumphs and even excesses are the subject of this book"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1800-1900
  • Geschichte 1937-1901
  • Book design > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Printing > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Color printing > History > 19th century
  • Book design
  • Color printing
  • Printing
  • Buchkunst
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "Printed in Great Britain by offset-lithography by Shenwal Press Ltd, London and Harlow Colour and monochrome plates made by H.T. Photolitho Ltd"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The background -- Whittingham and Pickering -- Novels and gift books up to 1850 -- Colour printing becomes commercial -- Colour printing: George Baxter, Charles Knight, Thomas de la Rue, and others -- Children's books up to 1850 -- Henry Shaw's coloured books and Chiswick Press colour printing -- Early lithography and Owen Jones -- The 'illuminated' gift book -- Henry Noel Humphreys, author and illustrator -- The advance of chromolithography -- Joseph Cundall, publisher and book designer -- From yellow-backs to the 'sixties -- Colour printing from wood: Vizetelly, Edmund Evans, and the Dalziels -- Colour printing from wood: G.C. Leighton, Kronheim, Dickes and Fawcett -- Styles in nineteenth century publishers' bindings -- The end of an epoch.
ISBN
  • 0571097928
  • 9780571097920
  • 0520020782
  • 9780520020788
LCCN
72194492
OCLC
  • ocm00501768
  • 501768
  • SCSB-420080
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library