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THIS handsome volume will give the reader an excellent idea of the way in which photographs can be reproduced for illustration purposes. It is too often the case that either copies of photographs have to be made quickly or the paper on which they are printed is not of the most appropriate kind, so that the “reproduction” is by no means of a very high order. In this annual, however, the editor has taken great care that the art of reproduction should be given its full scope, and any reader cannot but admire the results as here displayed. From the beginning to the end of the volume we find innumerable illustrations, dealing with all kinds of subjects and reproduced by nearly as many processes. The illustrations are as nearly perfect as reproductions can be, and show that a sound practical knowledge has been utilised throughout. The editor states that “We have tried to show what photomechanical processes can do at the present time, and to present the specimens of the numerous British and foreign firms in a style which will bring out every quality in the plates.” That this has been carried out in a highly satisfactory manner cannot be denied.
Penrose's Pictorial Annual.
Vol. vi., The Process Yearbook for 1900. Edited by William Gamble. Pp. xvi + 112. (London: Penrose and Co., 1900).
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Penrose's Pictorial Annual . Nature 63, 178 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063178b0
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