The Color Printer; A Treatise On The Use Of Colors In Typographic Printing

Cincinnati: Earhart & Richardson, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth, spine and front cover decorated in gilt and blind with front cover center capsule in three colors. Near fine. 137 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Signed by Earhart and laid-in a pre publication announcement initialed by the author in red ink asking recipient for an opinion of this book. Ninety color plates in two to twenty colors. The work contains 166 colors, hues, tints and shades produced by a mixture of two colors each. Herbert, Yale Lib. Gazette, July 1974, p. 16.[Earhart s] book, over which he laboured for more than four years, was intended as a practical guide to all printers who desire to obtain the most artistic results in ornamental Colour Printing by the least amount of labour and expense ...... The greater part of the colour plates (which required 625 formes and 1,625,000 impressions for their production in a small edition) are used to demonstrate tints of varying strength and their combination with other tints... all the plates, which included specimens of embossing, printing in gold, rainbow printing, map printing, impressions from emery paper and various woods, were meticulously printed. - Vivian Ridler, Artistic printing: a search for principles, Alphabet & Image, 6. Wurmfeld, Color documents, 37. Birren Collection 213. The work was well known to printers in England and is one of the few American manuals included in Bridson/Wakeman (C117).