Yale Center for British Art

Title:
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

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:
Color printing -- Specimens. | Printing -- History. | Chromolithography -- Specimens. | Advertising -- Specimens. | Cooke, Alf -- Printer. | Crown Point Printing Works -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- [1897?].
Contributors:
Cooke, Alf.