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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE REPRODUCTION OF DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE USE OF SCIENTISTS & OTHERS
Reader in Vegetable Physiology in the University of London, University College
LONDON WILLIAM WESLEY & SON 28 Essex Street, Strand 1915
PRINTED BY THE WESTMINSTER PRESS, LONDON, W.
The Relative Cost of blocks and plates by various processes 89
1 An original lithograph by Mr. Harry Becker.
2 Chromolithograph. Messrs. Gerrards, Ltd.
3-5 Collotype. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
6 Half tone. Swan Electric Engraving Co., Ltd.
7 Half tone. \ | 8 Photogravure. | | 9 Collotype. | Messrs. André, Sleigh & > Anglo, Ltd. 10 Half tone. | | 11 Half tone. | | 12 Half tone three colour. /
Tailpiece, p. 11. Electrotype from the original wood engraving by Bewick.
Tailpiece, p. 30. Line block. Messrs. Bourne & Co.
Fig. 1. Wood engraving. Messrs. Edmund Evans, Ltd.
Figs. 3-6. Line blocks. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Figs. 7 and 8. Line blocks, reproductions of a wood engraving. Mr. C. Butterworth.
Figs. 10-13. Line blocks, reproductions of wood engravings.
Fig. 15. Line block. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Fig. 16. Line block. Swan Electric Engraving Co., Ltd.
Fig. 17. Line block. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Figs. 21-23. Line blocks. Messrs. Bourne & Co.
Fig. 26. Line block. Messrs. Bourne & Co.
Figs. 28 and 29. Line blocks. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Fig. 31. Line block. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Figs. 35 and 36. Line blocks. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Fig. 37. Line block. Messrs. Bourne & Co.
Fig. 38. Lithograph reproduced by the Swelled Gelatine Process. Artists Illustrators, Ltd.
Tailpiece, p. 86. Line block. Messrs. André, Sleigh & Anglo, Ltd.
Modern scientific publications, although they may in some or even many cases equal in their scientific quality the memoirs of earlier workers, do not, on the average, reach a high standard as regards illustration. For instance, in Great Britain botany is pre-eminent in its morphological aspects; it should therefore follow that the illustrations, which form so important a part of such papers, should be beyond reproach. This is not always so, a fact which must be patent to anyone with the slightest critical knowledge who looks through a typical journal. This is a fact much to be regretted, since many of the earlier scientists were accomplished draughtsmen and, indeed, often artists; in this connection the Hookers and Professor Daniel Oliver may be mentioned. The implication is not intended that there are no good amateur draughtsmen nowadays; there are, and in some cases possessed of great ability. The beautiful work of Church in his Floral Mechanisms may be cited as an example.