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I was absolutely blown away by this set of scans.
I was wondering, though, how did the printer get this man’s drawings from paper to the press? I don’t recall the exact time when lithography (as we know it) came into general use, but I would have to imagine that there must have been some kind of photo etching (or engraving). Obviously this couldn’t be a letterpress process…
It’s pretty clear from some of the pages that they were reduced photographically, so I suspect the printer simply made metal plates (usually copper or zinc) from film negatives, much as they would have for a halftone or illustration. This process was typically called “engraving” or even “etching,” though it was a chemical process using acid, not done by hand.
Off topic, but I’m curious about the technique Lewis Scott uses to make multicolored line drawings. It looks very old fashioned. How was this kind of thing originally produced? Here is his website: https://www.lewisscott.com/. And he has an illustration in the NY Times Sunday Aug 24 Week in Review section: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html?em
I’d suggest that you ask the folks who frequent the Type ID Board athttps://typophile.com/resources.
Nice work!
Samuel Welo’s Lettering: Modern and Foreign will be featured on my blog, Tenth Letter of the Alphabet, https://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com.
Starting on Monday, October 10, 16 images from his book will be posted each day through Friday, October 14. On Saturday, a profile of Welo will be posted.
This was incredibly inspiring, I really want to practice calligraphy right now.
This book has been my Bible since I was shown an old edition at a print shop where I did paste up. Simply the best.