Accession number
PML 196071.42
Published
[London : Charles Knight, 1841?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Advertising broadside for Charles Knight's "Knight's store of knowledge for all readers: being a collection of treatises, in various departments of knowledge," published by Knight in 1841.
At lower right: Engraved & printed by Stephen Sly & Co., patent colour printers, 83 Cornwall Road, Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
Printed in red, green, brown, and fawn.
Illustrated with figures of the nine muses printed in blue and black and superimposed over the nine letters of the word "knowledge."
Probablya metal relief etching printed by Sly using a color relief printing process obtained from Charles Knight who originally patented the technique ca. 1838. Cf. B. Gascoigne. Milestones in colour printing 1457-1859. United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 48-49.
At lower right: Engraved & printed by Stephen Sly & Co., patent colour printers, 83 Cornwall Road, Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
Printed in red, green, brown, and fawn.
Illustrated with figures of the nine muses printed in blue and black and superimposed over the nine letters of the word "knowledge."
Probablya metal relief etching printed by Sly using a color relief printing process obtained from Charles Knight who originally patented the technique ca. 1838. Cf. B. Gascoigne. Milestones in colour printing 1457-1859. United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 48-49.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : col. ill. (relief etching) ; 33 x 80 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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