Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association,, Chicago, IL:, 1927
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Tall thick 4to. 9.5 x 12.5 x 3 in. 488 pp. With 100's of colour plates, colour printing samples, sample pages, sample papers, black & white photogravures, and more. Victorian revival publisher's embossed simulated padded leather oilcloth binding, with bald eagle in red & white on front cover, t.e.g. (slight rubbing, very slight edgewear to head of spine), still a remarkably tight NF copy of this large oversize catalogue, from the library of Ursel Colin Narver (1903-1993), presented to him by West Coast Engraving Co., Portland, Oregon as manager at the time, and later manager of the Oregon Grange Bulletin, as well as co-publisher of Better Fruit Magazine until his retirement in 1986. First edition of what many consider to be one of the best printing sample books of the Jazz Age, containing hundreds of inserted samples from the best printers across the United States, Canada, England, France, and Germany. The editor begins with a lovely colour plate on tissue of the Santa Barbara Mission for John Henry Nash in San Francisco, and then includes samples of printing and colour plates by Coles Phillips, Thomas Webb for the fashion house Hickey-Freeman Co., a line-etching on zinc of Abraham Lincoln, a stunning Stark Davis illustration of a Lincoln Motor Car Limousine, a splendid ad for Miss Tokio Hosiery, step-by-step illustrations of how illustrations are etched, photographed, blocked, printed, a stunning R.F. Heinrich illustration in five colors, embossed colour printing for Brigdens Limited Linoleum Rugs, a superb colour plate by James Daugherty for the frontispiece in Drake's Quest and so many others. Also included are articles by James Montgomery Flagg, Gilbert Grosvenor, Frederick Corley, Adolph Zuckor, and many other luminaries of the 1920s.
Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association, New Method Photo Engraving Co., 680 Howard St.],, [San Francisco, CA:, 1929
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
4to. 63, [1] pp. Numerous plates, illustrations, colour illustrations, colour-register, photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated flexible covers, Art Deco zig-zag cover art (minor scuffing, edgewear, neatly rebacked), still VG copy, from the library of Bill High, w/ former ownership marking on front cover. First edition, thus, of this exceedingly scarce handbook extracted from "Achievement in Photo-Engraving" (1927), considered to by many to be one of the best printing sample books of the Jazz Age. Flader has specifically streamlined the selections of chapters, and illustrations from the massive work offering step-by-step illustrations of how photo-engravings are etched, photographed, blocked, printed, together with instructions on uses of colour and colour balance. The American Photo-Engravers Association specifically contracted with assorted Photo-Engraving printers across the country to issue these in various locales. Worldcat locates 9 copies (NYHSL, Grolier, Newberry, Phil. Mus. of Art, U So. Carolina, SMU, State Lib. Victoria, SFPL, & Victoria & Albert).