Dethleffs M (2 results)
More imagesPublished by J. Müller Verlag, Berlin 1900
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. 48pp, 38 numbered plates, 3 unnumbered plates with tissue-guards. Original publisher's cloth with gold decoration and lettering on front board. Decorative endpapers and title-page. Impressive work designed to give "those printers and pressmen who have little opportunity for on-the…-job training in this branch [i.e. color printing] a way of doing all color printing, of whatever sort, effectively and with full assurance of a good result, and of mixing colors for the work at hand correctly and efficiently" (pp.vii-viii). A brief chapter on the theory of color is followed by chapters on color printing, printing of multicolored illustrations, and halftone three- and four-color printing. Following this is an explanation of the color tables and then the tables: thirty-three tables of color samples composed and arranged by various methods, four plates of the same picture in different color combinations, and several examples of monochromatic halftone illustration. Tables 1-3 display seventy-two standard colors. Tables 4-33 form a coherent set of colors and color combinations using inks supplied by Berger & Wirth. There are about 600 colors presented in related groups in finely nuanced sequences, including various degrees of gloss. Inks or mixtures used are identified for each color. Each color sample also appears in three degrees of brightness: the solid color, the color in thick parallel lines alternating with thin white lines (imitating dark halftone), and the color in thin lines alternating with white (light halftone), making 1,800 color possibilities in all! * This copy contains the extremely rare additional leaves in the back pocket that are invariably lacking. Minor shelf wear to binding. Minor foxing to first pages and edges. Text in German. Binding and interior in overall near fine condition.
- Hardcover
Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.Ursus Rare Books
Contact seller2-star sellerMUELLER, J. and M. DETHLEFFS. Praktischer Leitfaden fuer Buntbuchdruck: ein wirkliches Hilfsbuch für den Farbendruck und die Farbenmischung im Buchdruck. Nach Jahrelangen praktischen erfahrungen und versuchen. 48 pp., illustrated with 36 collotype colour plates and 2 black and white plates. Folio, 305 x 225 mm., bound in publish…er's cloth. Berlin: J. Mueller, 1900. An early twentieth-century standard work on colour printing. The book starts with three plates which show 72 colours obtained from superimposition of red, yellow and blue. A superbly printed book, which is extremely rare, with OCLC listing only two copies, both in German libraries. A fine copy. Kuehni and Schwarz, pp. 182-183.
