The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Color in Typographic Printing

Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson, 1892.
First Edition. Signed by Author

28cm x 21cm. 137 pages, frontispiece, 90 colour plates (1 double-page), colour illustrations in the text. Original decorative cloth.

A detailed manual on the use of colour in typography printing, demonstrating how to achieve over 1,000 colours and tints from just 12 inks. The plates illustrate practical applications of colour mixing and showcase examples typographic colour effects. Widely regarded in printing history, typography, and colour theory. The first and only edition, with the signed leaf.

Lower hinge repaired. Minor bump to upper crown fore-edge corner. Very Good Condition.

AU$1,200.00

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