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    3£4 The Publishers' Circular March 15, 1...

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    Camnjkjlx Aisi) (Jo. The Board Of Cu»Acl...

    one thori half ty are penny forbidden . However to put , the any questions district au as

    to the limitation of the rate in the voting paper or to the public meeting , unless some definite question on that point is raised by

    the requisitionists on their requiring steps to be taken for ascertaining the opinion of the electors . A final proposal is to extend section 3

    of last year ' s Act so as to enable library authorities not only to combine for the pur M .-

    poses of the Acts , but also to avail themselves , upon terms to be agreed upon , of the benefits of libraries maintained out of funds under

    the control of the Charity Commissioners , Mr . W . B . Scott ' s Library . ~ A good deal

    of interest was shown in the sale , at Messrs . Sotheby ' s , of the library of Mr . W . Bell Scott ,

    the poet and artist . The following are some of the more notable and interesting prices : The proof sheets of Rossetti ' s poemsprivately

    printed X in 1869 , with his corrections - ~ , i and additions , containing ^ J several p Xoems never

    published and that exist only in this volume , which 1 Early is Italian unique , Poets £ 2 G ( / Sotheran presentation ); Rossetti copy 's

    possessing the only known impression of the , illustration the author did for the book ,

    afterwards cancelled by himself , £ 13 . 5 s . ( Rimell ) ; Shakspeare's * Comedies , Histories , and

    Tragedies and R . Allot / the , 1632 second , £ 13 . impression 5 s . ( Maggs , ) T ; . ' Para Cotes - dise Lost / first edition £ 8 . 5 s . ( Ridler ) and

    , , ' Paradise Regained , ' and * Samson Agonist es , ' first edition , £ 3 . 12 s . ( Pickering ); Shelley ' s

    * La on and Cythna , ' first edition , uncut , £ 11 . 5 s . ( F . Sabin ); Swinburne's ' Atalanta /

    first edition , uncut , presentation copy , with author ' s autograph , £ 8 ( Walford ) , and '

    Tristram of Lyonesse , ' 1882 , ' Century of Roundels , ' 1883 , ' Midsummer it Holiday / 1884 , * Marino Faliero "t ^ l i / 1885 \ hh all i ¦ ies with » i

    author ' inscri — ption— presentation 4 vols ., £ 5 . 5 cop s . ( Rimell , ) ; S 2 > enser ' 8 ' Faerie Queene / first edition

    2 vols ., £ 12 ( Pickering ); Rossetti ' s ' Poems / , first edition , presentation copy , 1870 £ 6 . 10 s .

    ( Lovent ) ; Miss Rossetti ' s Verses / dedicated , to her mother , £ 4 . 18 s . ( B . F . Stevens );

    volume of proof sheets of William Morris ' s ' Story of Sigurd / with his corrections and additions 1877 £ 3 ( Sotheran ) ; Coventry

    Patmore ' s poems , , firs , t edition , presentation copy , uncut , 1844 , £ 3 (\ Rimell )/ ' ; Keats' ' LamiaJ /

    ' Isabella / Eve of St . Agnes / and other poems , first edition , 1820 , a rare volume , £ 3 \ ( Bain ) s , and the same poet m . ' s Works and Letters ,

    edited by Mr . Buxton Forman , 4 vols ., £ 2 . 4 s . ( Lewin ); Charles Lamb ' s * Album Verses / first edition , uncut , £ 1 . lls . ( Bain ) ; Landor ' s

    the * Gebir same / first writer edition ' s 4 , Th £ 1 . 4 P s . ( t Rimell ameron ) , and and Pentalogia / first editionuncutpresentation

    copy ' fro C « 7 m the author / , £ 1 . 12 , s . ( Pearson ); Russell Lowell ' s ' Biglow Papers / with preface '

    cel by laneous T . Hug L hes yrics , 1801 / ' An ; Joseph OfFering Ski to psey Lancashire ' s Mis- ( poems by Locker , Rossetti , W . B . Scott , and

    others £ 1 . Is . ) ( 1 Bennett 863—and ) ; other Lang ' s volumes ' Ballads , ten and L in yrics all , of Old France / first editionuncut £ 3 . 3 s . * Vw A rift * mv *« a a « , di —» , _ a ^

    ( Jrearaon ) ; Adah ' Isaacs Menken s ' Infehcia ^ ^ * , O ^ f—— . ....

    with a carte de visite of the authoress and Mr . Swinburn k > e inserted h ( 1868 ) , £ 1 . fL 6 s . ( Jackson am ); a ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ _ _

    and Mr ^^ . George MacDonald ^^ ^ ' s ' Diary of an Old ^^ Notes Soul / / 5 Nos s . ( Rimell . 1-5 ) ( . 1855 Mr -59 . ) Ruskin , and his 's ' Aca ' Salsett demy e

    and Elephanta / a prize poem , Oxford ( 1839 ) , fetched £ 3 . bs . ( Richard Ward ) ; whilst Lord Tennyson's ' Idylls of the King ' went for a

    shilling ( Walfcrd ) . The sale realised a total sum of £ 810 , 7 s . How Illustrations are Printed .

    —Illustrated work differs from ordinary news work in one important particular . In a mass of type of the same size the pj ressure is even , but

    where there are blocks with much black in them or much open work , the resistance is unevenand the pressure consequently varies .

    The black , blocks resist ___ more than type , and open _ ^_ blocks _ — hardl _ — ^ y resist — at all ; and thus cuts _

    muc with h much more contrast of li in ght some and shade arts th require an in pressure p

    others , and to print a cut properly the pressure must be in proportion to the resistance . The

    way in which this result is obtained is called overlaying . Thomas Bewickof Newcastle

    the father , / O of modern wood-engraving , , is said , to have introduced overlays ; out this cannot

    be true , for there are marks of unequal pressure in several sixteenth-century prints .

    Bewick , too , is said to have been the lirst to lower his blocks a shade where he wanted a delicate tint ; but the dodge is at least as old

    as Holbein's ' Dance of Death . ' He also is said to have been tho first to cut on the columnar fibre of the wood ; but that practice

    was recommended in Papillon ' s book when Bewick was six years old . However , he may

    have been the first to use all three contrivances together ; and as to the overlaying , he certainly seems to have independently invented it or

    revived it after a long interval . The practice is somewhat of an art or mystery , but its principle is clear . The printer cannot decrease

    t he ordinar - *¦ y pressure , but A- where blackness is wanted tho pressure can be increased by thickening the cylinder , and the cylinder is

    thickened just at the spot required by pasting p ieces of paper JL M . on to it . These p ieces of

    paper have to be of a peculiar shape , and the shape depends on the subject . Three or four impressions —jj _ of the cut are taken on thinnish

    paper - . These impressions are not like artists ' proofs , in which the ink is modulated , but

    they are hard , crude pulls , showing what the cut would look like if left to itself ; and the printer ' s object is to arrange his overlays so as

    to make the impression worked off the machine look manage as . much With like a pair the artist of scissors ' s proof he as sni lie ps can out

    of cue of his flat pulls all the light shading and fine work . He then snips away from

    ano He blacks ther then and pull sni the ps every half another thing tints pull . but And so the as with deep to leave another blacks tho .

    he may leave a little more of the shading . He may % f even make six overlaysor—and it is

    ' fj ~ , better if he can so manage it—he may do with three . He then pastes these together one

    over the other so as to make the thinnest possible pad on tho cylinder , and when they I

    3£4 The Publishers' Circular March 15, 1...

    3 £ 4 The Publishers' Circular March 15 , 1890

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/18/