Wood-block printing : a description of the craft of woodcutting & colour printing based on the Japanese practice /
The following account of colour-printing from wood-blocks is based on a study of the methods which were lately only practised in Japan, but which at an earlier time were to some degree in use in Europe also. The main principles of the art, indeed, were well known in the West long before colour print...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Isaac Pitman & Sons,
[1916?]
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| Series: | Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks.
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| Summary: | The following account of colour-printing from wood-blocks is based on a study of the methods which were lately only practised in Japan, but which at an earlier time were to some degree in use in Europe also. The main principles of the art, indeed, were well known in the West long before colour prints were produced in Japan, and there is some reason to suppose that the Japanese may have founded their methods in imitating the prints taken from Europe by missionaries. -- Editor's preface. |
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| Item Description: | Plates VIII-XXIV included in the paging; one of the plates is colored and mounted. Also half-tone reproductions of various examples of printing and of an original print designed and cut by the author printed on Japanese paper. |
| Physical Description: | 131 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | "Books of reference": page 129. |