Main entry:

Gascoigne, Bamber.

Title & Author:

How to identify prints : a complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to ink jet / Bamber Gascoigne.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"With 271 illustrations, 39 in color."
Includes bibliographical references (page 198) and index.
I. The prints. Print families ; The three types of print ; Other images known as prints ; Manual prints and process prints ; Monochrome prints and colour prints -- Manual prints. Monochrome. Relief. Woodcuts ; Wood engravings ; Metal relief prints ; Modern relief methods. Intaglio. Engravings Etchings ; Drypoints ; Line engravings ; Steel engravings ; Crayon manner and stipple engravings ; Soft ground etchings ; Mezzotints ; Aquatints ; Other total methods in intaglio. Planographic. Lithographs ; Transfer lithographs. Colour. Relief. Chiaroscuro woodcuts ; Colour woodcuts ; Tinted wood engravings and colour wood engravings ; Relief colour from metal blocks ; Modern relief methods in colour. Intaglio. Colour mezzotints, aquatints, stipple engravings. Planographic. Tinted lithographs ; Colour lithographs. Mixed method. Baxter prints ; Nelson prints ; New methods in colour. Process prints. Categories of process print. Monochrome. Relief. Line blocks ; Relief halftones. Intaglio. Nature prints ; Photogalvanographs ; Line photogravures ; Tone photogravures ; Gravures (machine-printed). Planographic. Collotypes ; Photolithographs. Colour. Relief ; Intaglio ; Planographic. Screenprints and non-prints. Screenprints ; Monotypes and clichés-verre -- II. Keys to identification. Images with printed text ; Words below the image : what they say ; Words below the image : how they look ; The plate mark ; How the ink lies ; Varieties of line ; Varieties of tone ; Varieties of face ; Differences ; The pleasure of oddities ; Is the image printed? ; Original or reproduction? ; Embossing ; Lift ground ; States ; Ruling machines, multiple tint tools, medal engraving ; Prepared, manufactured and mechanical tints ; Colour print or coloured print? ; Tint or colour? ; Colour from one or more impressions? ; Colour separation ; Register ; How many printed colours? ; Paper ; Process, mechanical : stereotyping ; Process, chemical : electrotyping ; Process, photochemical ; Halftone screens ; Illustrated books ; Postcards ; Banknotes and stamps -- Newspapers and magazines ; Around the house -- III. Reference. A print vocabulary : a guide to consistent usage ; The Sherlock Holmes approach.

ISBN:

050023454X
9780500234549

Subject:

Prints Technique.
Engraving Technique.
Intaglio printing.
Lithography.
Estampe Technique.
Impression en creux.
Lithographie.
printmaking.
intaglio printing.
intaglio printing processes.
lithography.

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 10475
Call No.: ID:87-B2656
Status: Available

Location: Library main 10478
Call No.: ID:87-B2656
Status: Available

Location: Library cataloguing office 10477
Call No.: NE850 (ID87-B2656)
Status: Available

Location: Library prints and drawings office 10476
Call No.: ID PD; ID:87-B2656
Status: Available