Author: BAXTER, GEORGE [1804-1867]
Title: Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings, for the year 1837. Containing eleven designs, executed in oil colours, by G. Baxter, from the original pictures, with illustrations in verse and prose.
Description: London, Chapman & Hall. 1837, First Edition. Hardcover, 20cm x 25,5cm. Livre, 3 preliminary leaves, [v]-xvi, 71, [1] pages 11 color plates (including frontispiece). Publisher's dark red straight-grain morocco ornately gilt with varicolored morocco onlays, spine ends worn, joints and cover corners slightly rubbed; contents generally clean.publisher's dark red straight-grain morocco ornately gilt with varicolored morocco onlays, joints and cover corners slightly rubbed; contents generally clean. "Baxter's most distinguished work in the field of book illustration" (Friedman), The Pictorial Album was intended to showcase his elaborate printing process for the reproduction of paintings. The preface summarizes the history of color printing and describes Baxter's patented technique, which involved the imposition of multiple oil color wood blocks over a monochrome key plate. Abbey Life 196; Friedman, Color Printing in England 50A-B; McLean (1974), page 17; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 100. SCARCE. Photos available upon request. 20cm x 25,5cm. Good condition.

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