Practical hints on decorative printing with illustrations engraved on wood and printed in colours at the type press

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Savage, William

Contributors

• • Has illustrator 

    Branston, R.
  • Has illustrator 

    Nesbit, Charlton
  • Has illustrator 

    Bonner, G.W.
  • Has illustrator 

    Hughes, W.
  • Has illustrator 

    Thompson, J.

Publisher

• Publication

  London: 1822

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1822

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Woodcuts by C. Nesbit, Branston, J. Thompson, G.W. Bonner, W. Hughes, J. Lee, J. Martin, W.C. Walker, J. Byfield, G. Thurston, H. White, J. Berryman after J. Thurston, W.M. Craig, T. Willement, W. Hunt, J. Varley, a.W. Callcott, T. Moule, R. Thomson, J.P. Neale and W.H. Brooke
  • First and only edition of a beautiful, important and practical manual of “decorative” printing (fine printing, colour printing, decorative ornament and illustration) compiled by the English printer and wood-engraver William Savage (1770–1843). It discusses printing presses, presswork (including the first clear and detailed description of make-ready), ink, types, paper and especially colour printing from multiple woodblocks, and is an essential reference for practicing fine printers, for the study of early 19th-century practice and for anyone with a practical, historical or bibliophile interest in colour printing. It is a pioneering work of colour printing, showing the author’s latest experimental techniques and materials. The wood-engraved illustration plates, some from designs by A.W. Callcott, John Varley, John Thurston, (Thomas?) Willemont and W.H. Brooke, show a wide variety of subjects and demonstrate the effects that can be achieved with different colours.

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