[Collotypes from photographs of ravages of bombardment in Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882]
Description:
"32 collotypes from photographs of ravages of bombardment. The type style for plate identification here is identical to those in the edition published in 1883 where the plates are...by the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston. The collotype method, patented by T. C. Roche and called Indotint and Photo-Gelatin, was...[used by] the N.Y. Photogravure Co...This seems to be the earliest dated book thus far located to have been produced by the N.Y. Photogravure Co."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 81
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
In: Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882 / by Lieutenant-Commander Caspar F. Goodrich. Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1885 -- Title supplied by cataloger