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Making ready for the press in an 1895 book-illustration manual: electrotypes, overlays, proofs…
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Documents what one 1895 lecture says about preparing illustrations for printing: electrotype copies of blocks, overlays that adjust blacks and greys, seeing the printer's proofs, and how price shaped the drawing. For illustrators and print-minded makers. It covers period letterpress only, not digital or modern print, and nothing was run.
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Guide title
Making ready for the press in an 1895 book-illustration manual: electrotypes, overlays, proofs and cost
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Documents what one 1895 lecture says about preparing illustrations for printing: electrotype copies of blocks, overlays that adjust blacks and greys, seeing the printer's proofs, and how price shaped the drawing. For illustrators and print-minded makers. It covers period letterpress only, not digital or modern print, and nothing was run.
Useful starting points
- The lecture says an illustrator making a fine book should see the printer's proofs as well as the engraver's proofs.
- Its statements about cost and limits are the author's views of his own time, not current facts.
- It says nothing about digital files, offset or print on demand, so any modern use is the reader's own inference.
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