Impressions of nature : a history of nature printing

The British Library
Mark Batty

London, England, United Kingdom New York, United States

2010

9780712306737
0712306730
9780982075401
0982075405

English

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1st edition

In the beginning -- Early nature printing -- The Italian art -- The spread of nature printing -- Nature printing reaches Britain -- The German century -- Nature printing in colonial America -- The botanical explorer's tool -- The real thing : natural illustration -- Continuity and change : the early nineteenth century -- Photography and nature printing -- The revolution of the 1840s -- Alois Auer and the k. k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei -- Industrial espionage : the case of Henry Bradbury -- The work of Bradbury & Evans -- Crafts for ladies : embellishing the home of taste -- Tradition in English nature printing -- Innovation after Bradbury -- Nature printing in a growing world -- On the Continent -- Butterflying with the poets -- Nature printing in the twentieth century -- Postscript : Nature printing today -- Appendices. Luca Pacioli on nature printing, from his De Viribus Quantitatis, c. 1508 ; Robert Dossie's description of making copies, from The Handmaid to the Arts ; Peter Larsen Kyhl's Description of the method to copy flat objects of nature and art ; W.H. Fox Talbot's Process for photoglyphic engraving ; Instructions for spatterwork "doilys from natural foliage" ; Directions for nature printing ; Christopher Dresser's nature printing patent ; Gyotaku : Japanese methods of taking prints from fish

Roderick Cave has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA and has a background in printing history.

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19 Dec 2023