H G Clarke BAXTER COLOUR PRINTS PICTORIALLY PRESENTED 1920-1 Deluxe Private Binding Leather Gilt Illustrated Plates Original Serial Covers Landscapes Portraits Chronology English Artist Printer Lists

Title: Baxter Colour Prints Pictorially Presented
Author: George Baxter - George Baxter was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable color printing. Baxter's process for producing color prints combined relief and intaglio printing methods. A 'key' plate was prepared, usually made of steel and using any combination of engraving, stipple, etching and aquatint. Baxter also appears to have used mezzotint and lithography to create his key plate on occasion. The key plate provided the main lines of the image and much of the tone, light and shade. It was usually printed in a neutral tone, such as light grey or terracotta. Often, Baxter used more than one color to ink the key plate – for example, to gradate the image from blue in the sky, to buff in the middle distance and to a darker colour in the foreground; i.e. inking the plate à la poupée. Usually, Baxter used aquatint for landscapes and stipple to work faces and figures., H. G. Clarke
Publisher: Maggs Bros.
City: London
Year: 1920-1
Binding Style: Hardcover
Width: 9" Height: 11.5"
Book Details: Handsomely bound in leather over pebbled blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering, this volume is a deluxe private binding of a serially produced work. The original series covers are bound-in. Profusely illustrated, this work contains a frontispiece portrait of the artist.

From the foreword: “It is the intention of the Editor to issue this work in twelve parts, and to place Pictorially before the public the pictures which the hand and brain of this pioneer of Colour Printers weaved. By pictures is meant the prints which Baxter produced for sale either on lettered or stamped mounts, and which number about one hundred and sixty-five. Through the pages of the various parts will be found interesting matter dealing with Baxter’s works.â€
Condition / Notes: This antique volume is in exceptional condition, with minimal indications of age and wear. The binding and text block are sound. Text and illustrations remain clear and crisp through mild age toning.

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