An essay on transparent prints, and on transparencies in general

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- 20 plates
- Text English and French
- A detailed account of techniques for making prints intended for viewing with transmitted light, both as prints for viewing on their own and as decorative windows and window hangings, Chinese and Western lamps, fans, partition screens, panels, etc. The illustrations include many examples of the prints themselves for viewing with transmitted light. The book also discusses making mock stained-glass by oiling cut-out pieces of coloured paper. The double-page plate contains 17 figures showing transparent prints incorporated into lamps, screens, etc. Only plates 2, 4, 5 and 20 are numbered, but the book itself gives a numbered list of 20 "plates", including the frontispiece, 4 half-page engravings (two on integral leaves and two on inserted leaves that nevertheless contain some letterpress text as well). The leaf with the coloured-paper cut-outs is not listed among the "plates". Abbey does not follow the book's own numbering. The odd manner of incorporating the engravings, with some on integral leaves but some of the text on inserted leaves, caused confusion leading to irregular pagination.