Appendix

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This section is from the book "Wood-Block Printing", by F. Morley Fletcher. Also available from Amazon: Wood-Block Printing.

Appendix

An original print in colour, designed and cut by the author and printed by hand on Japanese paper, followed by collotype reproductions showing the separate impressions of the colour blocks used for this print, and other collotype reproductions of various examples of printing and design.

The particulars given in Chapter VIII (Co-Operative Printing) on co-operative printing refer specially to the original print included in the first edition. In this edition an entirely new print is shown, and only 1,000 copies of it are being published.

Plate VIII. - An Original Print Designed And Cut By The Author, Printed By Hand On Japanese Paper

Plates originally printedin collotype are now producedin half-tone

Plate IX. - First Printing. Key Block. Black

Plate X. - Second Printing. Dull Red. Printed Lightly At The Top

Plate XI. - Third Printing. Deep Blue. Strong At The Bottom, Paler At The Top

Plate XII. - Fifth Printing. Bright Orange

(The Fourth Printing, Not Shown, Is A Similar Small Block, Printing A Faint Tone Over The Road In The Foreground.)

Plate XIII. - Sixth Printing. Indian Red. Gradation

Plate XIV. - Seventh Printing. Green. Printed Flat

Plate XV. - Eighth Printing. Bluish Green. Gradation

Plate XVI. - Reproduction Of A Colour Print By HiroshigÉ

Plate XVII. - Reproduction Of A Portion Of The Print Shown On The Preceding Page, Actual Size, Showing The Treatment Of The Foliage And The Expressive Drawing Of The Tree Trunk And Stems

Plate XVIII. - Reproduction Of Another Portion Of The Print Shown On Page 111 (Actual Size), Showing The Expressive Use Of Line In The Drawing Of The Distant Forms