A history of chromolithography: printed colour for all by Michael Twyman. London: British Library and Printing Historical Society; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2013. 728 pages. Folio (32 x 24 x 6 cm). Cloth with full-colour dust-jacket. ISBN 0712356106, 9780712357104. Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. A massive work, and the standard text on the subject. To quote the dust-jacket blurb: This book offers—for the first time since the process was in its heyday—a detailed account of how chromolithographs were made. But whereas contemporary writers focused on the methods and practices of their own time, the author traces their evolution over a period of a hundred years. Some of the methods he describes and illustrates are so extraordinary that they require readers in our digital age to suspend their disbelief. Drawing on a variety of sources—manuals, journals, correspondence, preparatory drawings, proofs, interviews with people in the trade, as well as the products themselves—he provides fascinating insights into the methods and skills of the chromolithographer. I am selling this book on behalf of the UK publisher, the Printing Historical Society (it is out of print with the British Library and Oak Knoll). Orders will be dispatched within seven days. Members of the Printing Historical Society can buy copies at a discount (see http://printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk/publications/#171) |