12 photomechanical prints : artotypes ; 20 x 13 cm
Description
"1 Artotype of a photograph of coquina (a matrix of shells) over the boards to make the cover. 12 Artotype plates with 13 photographs of St. Augustine. E. Bierstadt [firm] did the plates from negatives by E. Bierstadt for the coquina; W.A. Cox and H.L. Roberts for the other photographs. This book, at present, is the earliest to have used a photograph to create the pattern for the covers."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 89
In: Old St. Augustine; a story of three centuries / by Charles B. Reynolds. Illustrated with artotypes and fac-simile engravings. St. Augustine, Fla., E.H. Reynolds, 1886 -- "The binding of the present edition is a reproduction by photographic process of coquina, the building stone peculiar to St. Augustine"--p. [iv] -- Title supplied by cataloger
Source
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
"1 Artotype of a photograph of coquina (a matrix of shells) over the boards to make the cover. 12 Artotype plates with 13 photographs of St. Augustine. E. Bierstadt [firm] did the plates from negatives by E. Bierstadt for the coquina; W.A. Cox and H.L. Roberts for the other photographs. This book, at present, is the earliest to have used a photograph to create the pattern for the covers."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 89
In: Old St. Augustine; a story of three centuries / by Charles B. Reynolds. Illustrated with artotypes and fac-simile engravings. St. Augustine, Fla., E.H. Reynolds, 1886 -- "The binding of the present edition is a reproduction by photographic process of coquina, the building stone peculiar to St. Augustine"--p. [iv] -- Title supplied by cataloger
Source
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction