How to identify prints : a complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet / Bamber Gascoigne

Author:: Gascoigne, Bamber
Published:: New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Edition:: 2nd ed.
Physical Description:: 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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Contents:

The three types of print -- Other images known as prints -- Manual prints and process prints -- Monochrome prints and colour prints -- Woodcuts -- Wood engravings -- Metal relief prints -- Modern relief methods -- Engravings -- Etchings -- Drypoints -- Line engravings -- Steel engravings -- Crayon manner and stipple engravings -- Soft ground etchings -- Mezzotints -- Aquatints -- Other total methods in intaglio --, Lithographs -- Transfer lithographs - Chiaroscuro woodcuts -- Colour woodcuts -- Tinted wood engravings and colour wood engravings -- Relief colour from metal blocks -- Modern relief methods in colour -- Colour mezzotints, aquatints, stipple engravings -- Tinted lithographs -- Colour lithographs -- Baxter prints -- Nelson prints -- New methods in colour -- Categories of process print -- Line blocks -- Relief halftones -- Nature prints -- Photogalvanographs -- Line photogravures -- Tone photogravures -- Gravures (machine-printed) -- Collotypes -- Photolithographs -- Relief -- Intaglio -- Planographic -- Screenprints -- Monotypes and clichés-verre -- Images with printed text -- Words below the image: what they say -- Words below the image: how they look -- The plate mark -- How the ink lies -- Varieties of line -- Varieties of tone -- Varieties of face -- Differences -- The pleasure of oddities -- Is the image printed? -- Original or reproduction? -- Embossing -- Lift ground -- States -- Ruling machines, multiple tint tools, medal engraving -- Prepared, manufactured and mechanical tints --, and Colour print or coloured print -- Tint or colour? -- Colour from one or more impressions? -- Colour separation -- Register -- How many printed colours? -- Paper -- Process, mechanical: stereotyping -- Process, chemical: electrotyping -- Process, photochemical -- Halftone screens -- Illustrated books -- Postcards -- Banknotes and stamps -- Newspapers and magazines -- Around the house -- A print vocabulary: a guide to consistent usage -- Select bibliography -- The Sherlock Holmes approach -- Glossary-index.

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ISBN:

0500284806
9780500284803

Note:

Rev. pbk. ed.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Preservation copy: Purchased with funds from the Class of 1966 Libraries Endowment; 20078.

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