The first seven pictures appeared with the signature of Seymour and the letterpress of Dickens.
Mr. Frank Tarver also wrote the letterpresswhich accompanied the picture.
There are the showy volumes of Yriate on Venice, Florence, and other subjects, with letterpress written apparently to accompany blocks and plates in the publisher's warehouse.
Later, metal was made possible as a substitute for wood, and this enabled illustrations and letterpress to be printed together.
His test of a good illustrator is that the illustrations continue to haunt the memory when the letterpress is forgotten.
In some cases girls displace boys for no other reason than that boys cannot be found to do the work; this was the case in Manchester some ten years ago, when girls took the place of boys in letterpress work.
What has been said of feeders under letterpress printing is generally true of feeders in the lithographic branch.
It is said that the Bible he printed at Mayence was sold as manuscript; and the letterpress is certainly not accompanied by any technical explanation, or by any note of the printer's name or the mode of fabrication.
We may, in short, conclude that the idea of combining designs cut on wood with a separateletterpress in movable types, belongs in all probability to Holland.
They had already tried to enliven even the execution of the illustrations intended to accompany letterpressby more decided suggestions of light and shade and general effect.
The title-pages are identical, and the same plates have been used throughout, but the letterpress is in Latin in the one, and in French in the other.
Containing a large Engraving of a Scripture Subject, with letterpress for each day in the month.
Containing Twelve large New Testament Scenes, printed in colours, with appropriate letterpressby Mrs. G.
It is a handsome and important volume of 400 pages; the letterpress being a brightly written commentary, abounding with illustrative gossip, on the caricature of the century and the merits of its graphic humourists.
As might have been expected, every one who excites their ridicule or contempt is treated and (in their letterpress descriptions) spoken of in the broadest manner.
The idea of the letterpress description (a very long one), from which the above is an extract, is borrowed of course from Dr.
Figaro" consisted of four weekly pages of letterpress illustrated by Robert Seymour.
These essays, or rather letterpress descriptions, were written to the pictures, which were not drawn (as is generally supposed) in illustration of the text.
With admirableletterpress descriptions of the Nineteen Centuries of European History.
Illuminations, mostly coloured by hand; the Letterpress within Woodcut Borders of beautiful design.
At Edinburgh and Stirling, he afterwards qualified himself for the business of a letterpress printer, and in 1816 opened a printing-office in his native town.
It appears to me that a book must include every part of the book; it must include every print, design, or engraving which forms part of the book as well as the letterpress therein which is another part of it.
A newspaper is a sheet of letterpress within the Act and must be registered.
But that can be overcome, I think, by letting the measurement mean letterpress and nothing else.
Mr. Hopkins, was to give measurements in centimeters of the letterpress and of the page--not of the binding.
Further on are printing offices, where all the letterpress and lithography required in the establishment is accomplished.
He made him acquainted with a process which considerably strengthened paper that had become weak in its cohesion; and when Richard would make further experiment, he supplied him with valueless letterpress to work upon.
He taught him how to clean letterpress and engravings from ferruginous, fungous, and other kinds of spots.
The blurring of letterpress is a defect which often occurs with printing papers made of chemical wood pulp.
In such cases, with an inferior body paper, the pages of a book very quickly discolour, and the letterpress becomes blurred.
The Illustrations will be Photo lithographed from the original Drawings, and the Letterpress printed in large clear type.
Volume of 380 pages of letterpress description and eighty large 4to.
He was pointing away from life's black and crowded letterpress to the white and spacious margin--the margin with the gilt edge--that was all.
There is something delicious, luxurious, glorious in the spacious field of creamy paper bounded by the black letterpress on the one side and the gilt edges on the other.
The only objections to it in its new form were the rather too free treatment of the letterpress by the translator and the very unnecessary Germanicising of the children’s names.
Containing a large Engraving of a Scripture subject with a few linesletterpress for each day of the month.
Containing a large engraving of a Scripture subject with a few lines of letterpress for each day of the month.
The letterpress of this great work is a choice specimen of Nichol's types, and each play occupies a separate portfolio.
The Roxburghe had, however, at that time, done nothing in serious book-club business, having let loose only the small flight of flimsy sheets of letterpress already referred to.
To prevent misconception, many of the diagrams accompanying the letterpress have words as well as letters written on them.
I beg to thank the following gentlemen and firms for the help they have given me in connection with the letterpress and illustrations of "How It Works"-- Messrs.
Faber, entitled Praecipua aliquot Romanae antiquitatis ruinarum monimenta, without any letterpress save the name of the subject engraved on each plate.
The labour of cutting the letterpress on wood was much greater than that now involved in stereotyping, and the result clumsier.
The explanatory letterpress is given in the two upper corners and also on scrolls.
In 1574 he produced a fine book of portraits of physicians and philosophers, Icones veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque, in sixty-eight plates, with letterpress by J.
If he wanted to make it a real triumph of beauty he engraved the whole book, letterpress and all, as in the case of Sturt's Prayer Books and Pine's Horace.
It was known that woodcuts without letterpress were printed in Germany quite early in the fifteenth century, the cut of S.
