Milestones in Colour Printing 14571859: With a Bibliography of Nelson Prints [Paperback]

Bamber Gascoigne offers a broad historical survey of developments in colour printing from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.Bamber Gascoigne's broad historical survey ranges from developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, through the inventive attempts of nineteenth century British publishers to achieve cheap, effective colour printing, to the pioneering work of the firm Thomas Nelson and Sons. A catalogue of more than 1000 British and foreign views published by the firm in their own distinctive technique, the Nelson print, is also provided.Bamber Gascoigne's broad historical survey ranges from developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, through the inventive attempts of nineteenth century British publishers to achieve cheap, effective colour printing, to the pioneering work of the firm Thomas Nelson and Sons. A catalogue of more than 1000 British and foreign views published by the firm in their own distinctive technique, the Nelson print, is also provided.This broad historical survey ranges from developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the inventive attempts of nineteenth-century British publishers to achieve cheap, effective color printing, to the pioneering work of the firm Thomas Nelson and Sons. A catalog of more than 1000 British and foreign views published by the firm in their own distinctive technique, the Nelson print, is also provided. This book links these developments to the wider scientific, cultural and social currents of the period.Preface; 1. German relief to French intaglio fifteenth-eighteenth century; 2. The beginnings of chromolithography; 3. Towards the penny print in Britain 18341859; 4. Nelson and the Nelson prints; Publications with Nelson prints; Index of Nelson prints; Bibliography; Index of books containing Nelson prints. For the reader interested in a history of nineteenth-century color printing in Britain, Gascoigne's book provides a detailed and knowledgeable exposition of thatlÓ6