Antiquarian Books & Prints Guaranteed to Be Over 100 Year Old
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Antiquarian Books & Prints FREE 14 Page Sample eBook History of Printing on Paper Woodblock printing 200 Photostat and rectigraph 1907 Movable type 1040 Screen printing 1910 Printing press c. 1440 FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook Spirit duplicator 1923 Etching c. 1515 Antiquarian Books & Prints Xerography 1938 Mezzotint 1642 History of Printing on Paper Phototypesetting 1949 Aquatint 1772 Inkjet printing 1951 Lithography 1796 © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 Dye-sublimation 1957 Chromolithography 1837 Dot matrix printing 1968 Rotary press 1843 Laser printing 1969 Hectograph 1869 Thermal printing c.1972 Offset printing 1875 DNA printing c.1972 Hot metal typesetting 1884 3D printing 1984 Mimeograph 1886 FREE Valuation 1st Book Digital printing 1991 FREE Advice aBout Selling © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 1 Antiquarian Books & Prints Guaranteed to be over 100 years old, not a Facsimile FREE INTRODUCTION SAMPLE eBOOK DOWNLOADS Here at Mumfordbooks we buy and sell Quality Books & Prints, hard-to-find, first editions, many with illustrations and fine leather bindings. Old books with missing or damage pages we advise professional repair. We aim to restore books leaving as much original as possible, to Study and Educate. FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook Missing pages are replaced with digital copies images or text, we will restore with facsimiles printed on paper nearest to original, all facsimiles clearly marked as such. Antiquarian Books & Prints We will publish re-constructed old books with missing pages into reHistory of Printing on Paper -stored or new eBooks made up as complete as possible from original book pages (So called “Prints”) or with digital facsimiles. © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 All our eBooks will contain a mixture of both original or new marked facsimiles. In this digital world we can now “dip into pots” like a single book or print, public or private. Knowledge is everywhere, so tap into it, make knowledge a power for good. Enjoy the hunting, nothing is easy, try and make the world a better place. Your first book valuation is FREE. Due to demand, we have to charge a small fee for multiple requests. Bargain package: will value up to 25 books and give you two UK addresses of booksellers in your area, for a £25 valuation fee. We do buy selected quality books for re-sale, only if items compliment our category range. https://www.mumfordbooks.com/cat.asp?CatID=12 © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 2 Good Condition is key to High Value This important guide would include: • Good: Books & Prints without cuts, stains, or wear • Average: some wear, cuts, iron or mold stains • Poor: has major defects, pages missing, pen or pencil marks. FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook • Valuation is given as a “Wholesale AntiquarianPrice Books”, that is the price to the shop keeper. & Prints Fill in Blue Tag “Contact Me” Valuations a quick check list for first time customers, a one off is FREE valuation & advice History ofpage. PrintingBecause of a high demand for free on Paper valuations, I cannot answer all requests. Please remember this is a personal © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 service for old quality books printed before 1970. • (Not all my books are 100 years old, only a few special old or new 1st editions). • My quick guide, list title, author, publisher, date & edition, condition. • A true 1st first edition, good condition and rarity will produce the best value. • https://www.mumfordbooks.com/valuations © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 3 The 1st Pages Removed & Converted, now Digitized Ready to be collected and re-assembled were possible back into a whole Bible worth reading • 13Th 14th Century Bible Manuscripts Pages taken from Bibles for sale • FREE SAMPLECountry of Origin: Western Armenia, 14 Page eBook AntiquarianYerzynka Books &: AvagvankPrints Monastery History• of Printing on Paper © Mumfordbooks.comMaterial & Size: Parchment 2016 70.5 x 55 cm • Whole Bibles and Rare Books Broken up and sold to collectors, many now in museum archives, waiting to be put back together where possible. ©Mumfordbooks.com 2016 4 1502 SeB BRANT Virgil A&B Requires Fine Pastel Colours A,B & C Single Page Prints: The 4 Colours must be clean, not muddy, must show contrast FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook Antiquarian Books & Prints History of Printing on Paper © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 A B C © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 5 Examples from 16th Century German Printed Book Hand Colourists, use a light wash of Blue, Red, Brown & Green water-coloured within the last hundred years 1557 AGRICOLA de re Metallica Page taken from large FOLIO Drawn onto the end grain of a block-of- wood. Text in Printed gothic german. De re metallica is a book cataloguing the state of the FREE SAMPLE art of mining, refining, and smelting metals ... The 14 Page eBook Antiquarian Booksmost important work in this genre were, however, & Prints History of Printingthe twelve books on Paper De Re Metallica by Georgius © Mumfordbooks.comAgricola, published in 1556. 2016 Agricola had ..... It was published with the German title Vom Translating De Re Metallica – spread and influence of the text. into German. Philip Bechious, a Basel University Professor, translated De Re Metallica into german in 1557, ... Source: g. Richter, 'A few aspects of the public esteem of Agricola', .. https://www.ncm.org.uk/collections/library/de-re-metallica-online-exhibition/translating-de-re-metallica © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 6 The A,B,C & D of Printing & Hand Colouring 1786 Casting of a NEW BELL Diderot, 1798 Ship Building Sailing Ships by Roding, 1851 Butterflies Moths Hand Coloured by Berge, 1807 Roemuller ANATOMY of Knee FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook Antiquarian Books & Prints History of Printing on Paper © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 A B C D Woodcut- Woodcut Copper Engraving Steel Engraving Avoid Dark Colours Lacks Sharpness Fine Detail Extra Fine Detail Copy Nature’s Colours, avoid dark colours, as bright as possible © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 7 1776 Diderot: The Engraver sitting at taBle Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the nonFREE-printing parts. SAMPLE 14 Page eBook Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while Antiquarian Books & Prints characters or images at surface level carry the ink History of Printing on Paper to produce the print. The block is cut along the © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 grain of the wood (unlike wood engraving where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas. Sample 3 Colour Wash is enough to highlight picture © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 8 Great Craft Skills can help the Practical Artist to make the Copper or Steel Plate one-off, multiplied into a production line • Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique Antiquarian Books & Prints became less popular, except for banknotes and other forms of security printing. Especially in the past, "engraving" was often History of Printing on Paper used very loosely to cover several printmaking techniques, so © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 that many so-called engravings were in fact produced by totally different techniques, such as etching or mezzotint. "Hand engraving" is a term sometimes used for engraving objects other than printing plates, to inscribe or decorate jewelry, firearms, trophies, knives and other fine metal goods. Traditional engravings in printmaking are also "hand engraved", using just the same techniques to make the lines in the plate. • This includes ceramic transfers, silverware, guns and watches. © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 9 1839 Lithographic Printing Multi-colour introduced using fine grain Limestone • Lithographic limestone is hard limestone that is sufficiently fine-grained, homogeneous and defect free to be used for lithography. geologists use the term lithographic texture to refer to a grain size under 1/250 mm. • Lithography works because of the mutual repulsion of oil and water. The image is drawn on the surface of the print plate with a fat or oil-based medium (hydrophobic) such as a wax crayon, which may be pigmented to make the drawing visible. A wide range of oil-based media is available, but the durability of the image on the stone depends on the lipid content of the material being used, and its ability to withstand water and acid. After the drawing of the image, an aqueous solution of gum arabic, weakly acidified with nitric acid HNO3 is applied to the stone. FREE SAMPLE 14 Page eBook • The function of this solution is to create a hydrophilic layer of calcium nitrate salt, Ca (NO3), and gum arabic on all non-image surfaces. The gum solution penetrates into the pores of the stone, completely surrounding the original image with a hydrophilAntiquarian Books & Prints ic layer that will not accept the printing ink. Using lithographic turpentine, the printer then removes any excess of the greasy drawing material, but a hydrophobic molecular film of it remains tightly bonded to the surface of the stone, rejecting the gum History of Printing on Paper arabic and water, but ready to accept the oily ink. © Mumfordbooks.com 2016 • When printing, the stone is kept wet with water. Naturally the water is attracted to the layer of gum and salt created by the acid wash. Printing ink based on drying oils such as linseed oil and varnish loaded with pigment is then rolled over the surface.