Article: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books.(Review)

Today, when black and white is considered boring and color is everywhere, it is difficult to remember a relatively recent past when color illustrations were rare and expensive. The nineteenth century was the great time of experimentation with diverse methods of producing colorplates both in Europe and the United States. The present book is a catalogue of the nineteenth- century American colorplate books exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York City earlier this year. It is also an intriguing chronological survey of the century, from hand-colored copperplate engraving to trichromatic halftone and the many variations in between.

Copperplate engraving was favored ...

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