The Grammar of Lithography a Practical Guide for the Artist and Printer in Commercial and Artistic Lithography, and Chromolithography, Zincography, Photo-lithography, and Lithographic Machine Printing W.D. Richmond

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, W. D.

Series:

Cambridge library collection

Cambridge Library Collection

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010

Summary:

W. D. Richmond's The Grammar of Lithography (1878) is a comprehensive and instructive work on the many varieties of lithography - with all their attendant materials and instruments - described and explained in practical terms for the active participant and the amateur enthusiast alike. Richmond's Grammar should also be understood as part of a wider movement of nineteenth-century industrial disclosure, where pockets of masterly knowledge previously available to apprentices and company employees alone were being made much more widely available through impartial manuals and guides. This noble cause was intended to bring down the walls of ignorance and trade secrecy and to foster an open atmosphere of mutual understanding. In the realm of lithography, Richmond's Grammar was the first treatise to achieve this. While the work forgoes any historical or overly theoretical discussion, it does provide an excellent example of practically oriented expertise in the graphic arts

Notes:

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511694547

0511694547

9781108009072

1108009077

OCLC:

889953622

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license