The practical printer : a complete manual of photographic printing / by Charles W. Hearn ; containing full details concerning all the styles and processes of plain and albumen paper printing and of printing on porcelain, with an example of printing by the author, and nearly one hundred illustrations, valuable to both the learner and the practiced printer
212 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port., photo. ; 22 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1874
Notes:
The frontispiece (a mounted photograph portrait) is signed: F. Guterkunst, Philadelphia.
"Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., printers"--Verso of t.p.
Pages 193-212 contain advertisements.
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SCDIRB copy 39088010380749 has ms. ink inscriptions on front free endpaper: 1. "W.H. Jackson, Washington, D.C. 1875"; 2. "2-24-32. W.H. Jackson in the office this morning. I regret I did not show him this book.--A.J. Olmsted"; with Jackson's stamp on endpapers and cover.
SCDIRB copy has ms. inscription on t.p.: Purchased Jas. S. Hall; with stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Feb. 2, 1932; accession no. 289923.
SCDIRB copy has publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped red cloth binding with brown endpapers.
