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

Author(s): Gascoigne, Bamber

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Main Title: How to identify prints : a complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet
Author(s): Gascoigne, Bamber
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Collation: 208 p. : ill. (some col.)
25 cm.
ISBN: 9780500284803
Dewey Class: 760.28
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 -- 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.
Language: English
Subject: Prints -- Technique.
Prints -- History.
BRN: 7278