Accession number
PML 145051
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Published
London : Bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street, 1861.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First edition of this translation; cf. Osborne, cited below.
Half-title: Andersen's tales.
"These illustrations, which may be called electrographs, have not been made in the usual way, by means of wood-engraving, but the artist's own drawings, upon prepared metal plates, have been electrotyped by a new process, recently discovered by Mr. W.J. Linton, which bids fair to be of much service in book-decoration."--p. vi.
W.J. Linton's new process, which he himself dubbed "kerography", was apparently a variation on the wax engraving process (i.e. cerography), involving the coating of a metal plate with a wax ground, to be incised by the artist with a needle, after which a reverse relief "cast" was created via the electrotype process. Cf. Smith, Francis Barrymore. Radical artisan, William James Linton, 1812-97. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1973, p. 146
"With fifty-seven small woodcuts by W. Thomas and others"--At bottom of list of illustrations.
"London : Strangeways & Walden (late G. Barclay), Printers, 28 Castle St. Leicester Sq."--Colophon.
Half-title: Andersen's tales.
"These illustrations, which may be called electrographs, have not been made in the usual way, by means of wood-engraving, but the artist's own drawings, upon prepared metal plates, have been electrotyped by a new process, recently discovered by Mr. W.J. Linton, which bids fair to be of much service in book-decoration."--p. vi.
W.J. Linton's new process, which he himself dubbed "kerography", was apparently a variation on the wax engraving process (i.e. cerography), involving the coating of a metal plate with a wax ground, to be incised by the artist with a needle, after which a reverse relief "cast" was created via the electrotype process. Cf. Smith, Francis Barrymore. Radical artisan, William James Linton, 1812-97. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1973, p. 146
"With fifty-seven small woodcuts by W. Thomas and others"--At bottom of list of illustrations.
"London : Strangeways & Walden (late G. Barclay), Printers, 28 Castle St. Leicester Sq."--Colophon.
Description
vi, 311 p., [47] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Peter Scupham; signature of J.M. Morries Stirling on half t.p.; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold and blind by Bone & Son, with their ticket.
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