Baxter George Printer (6 results)

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original faux marbled light brown leather covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 4to. 11'' x 8½''. Contains (viii), 275 printed pages of text with colour plates and monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with just one tiny rub to the top front gutter. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0902028235 ART [British].

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A pair of Baxter process colour prints, each approx. 6 x 4 1/2" (image size), mounted on original card with embossed Baxter crest and picture caption (8 1/8 x 7"); mounts heavily browned, the prints slightly muted in tone. These attractive Baxter prints were not issued together, but relate closely by theme. The first shows pioneers in a rough wooden shack in the Australian outback, one of whom reads a letter, another a newspaper, from Britain (the newspaper features details of the Great Exhibition). The second image depicts a young woman reading a letter to her parents, her father clutching a £100 note (presumably sent by Australian prospectors!); on the wall behind them a notice announces "Emigration to Australia, the Ship Hope . . .".

George Baxter (1804 Ð 1867), the inventor of commercially viable color printing, patented his new printing method in 1835, the same year the present work was published. McLean explains that BaxterÕs patent Òwas for reproducing paintings in color by mean of printing by letterpress in oil inks from a succession of wood or metal relief blocks on a key printed either from a copper or steel plate or lithographic stone or zinc plateÉThis key, coupled with the number of printings (usually between ten and twenty, but sometimes as many as thirty), gave BaxterÕs prints the richness that none of his rivals ever attained and which still amazes us today. His other ÔsecretsÕÉwere great skill in selecting the colors to be engraved, in engraving them, and in obtaining exact register in printing.Ó Octavo. vii, 253, [2 ads] pp. With color frontispiece and additional title-page printed by George Baxter utilizing his newly patented method. Also with eighteen black-and-white lithographed plates by Day & Haghe, three vignette tailpieces, and over thirty text figures. PublisherÕs brown cloth stamped in gilt. Some fading and light soiling. Chipping to head of spine. All edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Very clean throughout despite light foxing to edges of some plates. A good, tight copy of this guide to illustration for young women, only the fourth book to feature George BaxterÕs prints. First edition. The present work is framed as a conversation between two girls, Ellen and Charlotte, and their mother. It provides an easy-to-understand guide to over half a dozen quite advanced illustration methods, with multiple informative plates representing each method. Gandee writes, ÒThe frontispiece is a very successful specimen of a new ArtÉit is done by taking successive impressions from wood blocks; and when it is stated that no less than twelve are used in this instance, and consequently each plate goes through the press twelve times, some idea may be formed of the ingenuity and skill required to conduct so difficult a process,Ó (p. vi). McLean, Ruari. Victorian Book Design, pp. 37-39.

Condition: Good. Colored Baxter print. 37.5 x 27.5 cm. (image). 47.8 x 35 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Surface soiling, sheet lightly toned, some specks of foxing, colors slightly faded.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1837 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 308 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 308 Volume 2 (1838) Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1837 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 304 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 304 Volume 3 (1840) Language: English.