Three-Colour Photography : Three-Colour Printing and the Production of Photographic Pigment Pictures in Natural Colours
London: A. W. Penrose & Co 1904. 148, xxxii (ads) pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt. Includes the often missing 4 x 2 1/2 inch Penrose colour scales in rear pocket (one four-page folding and one loose card). Light marginal dampstaining to lower right corner, lower edge and more significantly to the rear board. Lacks front flyleaf. Wonderful advertisements in the rear for many photographic items. Clean internally, a good working or reading copy. Front hinge reinforced. Good. Cloth. [28109]
Contains two major parts - Light and Colour, Theory and Practice of Three-Colour Printing. A German edition was published in 1897 and was "the first work which entered into all details concerning Three-Colour Photography."
"Although excellent handbooks on Colour Photography have been written in English, they hardly touch the limits of that important branch of indirect colour photography - three-colour printing." (the translator, himself a practitioner)
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