Accession number
PML 196071.37
Published
London : George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, and all booksellers, [1841?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with a backdrop showing a sunset or sunrise, printed in beige, brown, mustard-yellow, and black.
Illustration is probably a 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.
"Each Interior will contain a View of the Ceremony or Business Peculiar to the Edifice. Each Part will contain Two Plates with Eight Pages of Descriptive Letter-press."
At foot of sheet: Engraved and printed by Stephen Sly & Co. patent colour printers, 83, Cornwall Road, Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
Entire text transcribed.
Illustration is probably a 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.
"Each Interior will contain a View of the Ceremony or Business Peculiar to the Edifice. Each Part will contain Two Plates with Eight Pages of Descriptive Letter-press."
At foot of sheet: Engraved and printed by Stephen Sly & Co. patent colour printers, 83, Cornwall Road, Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
Entire text transcribed.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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