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Title(s):
Album of colour printing / Alf Cooke, art colour printer to the Queen, Leeds.
Published/Created:
Leeds : [Crown Point Printing Works], [1897?].
Physical Description:
[32] p., [4] leaves of plates : col. ill., ports ; 40 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 118
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
In original printed boards.
Cover title.
Date from Wakeman.
Consists of samples of Cooke's chromolithographic work, including advertisements, book illustrations, portrait of Sarah Bernhardt & 4 other actresses, etc.
Back cover shows exterior view of Crown Point Works, inside back cover shows interior view. Caption says "300 chromo-litho and other machines are used" and keep "750 workpeople in full and continuous work."
Wakeman, G. 19th century colour printers, p. 27.
Subject Terms:
Advertising -- Specimens.
Chromolithography -- Specimens.
Color printing -- Specimens.
Cooke, Alf -- Printer.
Crown Point Printing Works -- Publisher.
Printing -- History.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- [1897?].
Contributors:
Cooke, Alf.
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