Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone

Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone

Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone - Also Collotype and HeliotypeThe improvements made within the...
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Author: Wilkinson, W. T.
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Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone

Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone

$104.03 $51.99

Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone

$104.03 $51.99
Author: Wilkinson, W. T.
Format: eBook
Language: English

Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone - Also Collotype and Heliotype

The improvements made within the last twenty years in the art of printing books have not, until recently, been kept pace with by the methods of illustration. Wood engraving, except for high class and expensive editions, was crude, whilst the use of engravings from copper or steel, or of lithographs, was also restricted to short and expensive editions. The introduction of the zinc-etching process, in which the picture is first drawn in line, or stipple, or chalk, upon lithographic transfer paper, then transferred to a plate of zinc and subjected to a process of etching in various baths of acid water, marks a new era, replete with great improvements in cheapness, facility of production, and artistic results. This new process had scarcely been in good working order before it was seen that great improvements might be made by enlisting photography in its service; because in its original form it was necessary that the design be made of the same size as the finished block, which, in many cases, added too much to the expense. But by introducing photography, the size of the original was of no moment; the lens could easily reduce that, and at the same time preserve the proportions, as well as fine down any crudity in the drawing. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52378
Author: Wilkinson, W. T.
Release Date: Jun 19, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903

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