How to Identify Prints A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet

Name: How to Identify Prints A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet
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ISBN: 9780500284803

ISBN-10: 0500284806

ISBN-13: 9780500284803

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Bamber Gascoigne

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This comprehensive reference work provides all the answers to all the technical questions that constantly arise when trying to identify accurately any kind of print. Some ninety different techniques are described, as well as essential features of printing history and related matters such as colour separation.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 5/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.80" wide x 9.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 2.310
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


How to Use this Book



The prints


Print Families



The three types of print



Other images known as prints



Manual prints and process prints



Monochrome prints and colour prints


Manual Prints


Monochrome


Relief



Woodcuts



Wood engravings



Metal relief prints



Modern relief methods


Intaglio



Engravings



Etchings



Drypoints



Line engravings



Steel engravings



Crayon manner and stipple engravings



Soft ground etchings



Mezzotints



Aquatints



Other total methods in intaglio


Planographic



Lithographs



Transfer lithographs


Colour


Relief



Chiaroscuro woodcuts



Colour woodcuts



Tinted wood engravings and colour wood engravings



Relief colour from metal blocks



Modern relief methods in colour


Intaglio



Colour mezzotints, aquatints, stipple engravings


Planographic



Tinted lithographs



Colour lithographs


Mixed method



Baxter prints



Nelson prints



New methods in colour


Process Prints



Categories of process print


Monochrome


Relief



Line blocks



Relief halftones


Intaglio



Nature prints



Photogalvanographs



Line photogravures



Tone photogravures



Gravures (machine-printed)


Planographic



Collotypes



Photolithographs


Colour



Relief



Intaglio



Planographic


Screenprints and Non-Prints



Screenprints



Monotypes and cliches-verre



Keys to identification



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



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



Reference



A Print Vocabulary: a guide to consistent usage



Select Bibliography



The Sherlock Holmes Approach



Glossary-Index