Colour printing and colour printers / by R.M. Burch ; with a chapter on modern processes by W. Gamble ; introduction by Ruari McLean

Edinburgh : Paul Harris in association with Adam Hilger, 1983. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (page xxiii. Contents: Colour printing in the fifteenth century -- Colour printing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Colour printing in the eighteenth century. Section I: Le Blon's three-colour process -- the later workers in chiaroscuro -- Colour printing in the eighteenth century. Section II: Intaglio printing processes -- stippole, aquatint, etc. -- Colour printing in the nineteenth century -- chromo-xylography. Section I: Savage and his 'decorative printing' -- Baxter, his licensees and his rivals -- The Chiswick press -- Colour printing in the nineteenth century -- chromo-xylography. Section II: Knight, Leighton, Vizetelly, Evans, Fawcett, Silbermann, the Knoflers, Hodson, etc. -- Chromo-lithography. Section I: From the invention of the art to 1850 -- Chromo-lithography. Section II: From the exhibition of 1851 to the present day -- Photo-mechanical colour printing -- colour etching -- Modern colour precesses. By W. Gamble, editor of the ""process year book."" Subjects: Color printing History. Color printing. Methodology. Biography. Printing. Colour printing, to 1910. Genre:History.