Main entry:

McLean, Ruari, author.

Title & Author:

Victorian book design and colour printing / Ruari McLean.

Edition:

Second edition, enlarged and revised.

Publication:

London : Faber & Faber Limited, 1972.
©1972

Description:

xii, 241, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Printed in Great Britain by offset-lithography by Shenwal Press Ltd, London and Harlow Colour and monochrome plates made by H.T. Photolitho Ltd"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-241) and index.
The background -- Whittingham and Pickering -- Novels and gift books up to 1850 -- Colour printing becomes commercial -- Colour printing: George Baxter, Charles Knight, Thomas de la Rue, and others -- Children's books up to 1850 -- Henry Shaw's coloured books and Chiswick Press colour printing -- Early lithography and Owen Jones -- The 'illuminated' gift book -- Henry Noel Humphreys, author and illustrator -- The advance of chromolithography -- Joseph Cundall, publisher and book designer -- From yellow-backs to the 'sixties -- Colour printing from wood: Vizetelly, Edmund Evans, and the Dalziels -- Colour printing from wood: G.C. Leighton, Kronheim, Dickes and Fawcett -- Styles in nineteenth century publishers' bindings -- The end of an epoch.

Summary:

"Colour printing and the decoration and illustration of books and their bindings flourished in England in an extraordinary and unprecedented way between about 1830 and 1880. Ruari McLean describes how the period begins with the introduction of chromolithography and the inventions of Baxter and others, and ends with the introduction around 1880 of photo-mechanical methods, which spelled the death of old hand crafts whose triumphs and even excesses are the subject of this book"--Dust jacket flap.

ISBN:

0571097928
9780571097920
0520020782
9780520020788

Subject:

Book design Great Britain History 19th century.
Printing Great Britain History 19th century.
Color printing History 19th century.
Livres Conception graphique Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Impression en couleurs Histoire 19e siècle.
Book design
Color printing
Printing
Buchkunst
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Geschichte 1837-1901

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 78530
Call No.: ID Z116.A3 REF; ID:84-B542
Status: Available