I was wondering, though, how did the printer get this man's drawings from paper to the press? I don't recall the exact time when lithography (as we know it) came into general use, but I would have to imagine that there must have been some kind of photo etching (or engraving). Obviously this couldn't be a letterpress process...
Submitted by geozinger on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 10:23.
It's pretty clear from some of the pages that they were reduced photographically, so I suspect the printer simply made metal plates (usually copper or zinc) from film negatives, much as they would have for a halftone or illustration. This process was typically called "engraving" or even "etching," though it was a chemical process using acid, not done by hand.
Submitted by GeneGable on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 12:20.
Off topic, but I'm curious about the technique Lewis Scott uses to make multicolored line drawings. It looks very old fashioned. How was this kind of thing originally produced? Here is his website: http://www.lewisscott.com/. And he has an illustration in the NY Times Sunday Aug 24 Week in Review section: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html?em
Wow, just wow.
I was absolutely blown away by this set of scans.
I was wondering, though, how did the printer get this man's drawings from paper to the press? I don't recall the exact time when lithography (as we know it) came into general use, but I would have to imagine that there must have been some kind of photo etching (or engraving). Obviously this couldn't be a letterpress process...
Copper or Zinc Plates Most Likely
It's pretty clear from some of the pages that they were reduced photographically, so I suspect the printer simply made metal plates (usually copper or zinc) from film negatives, much as they would have for a halftone or illustration. This process was typically called "engraving" or even "etching," though it was a chemical process using acid, not done by hand.
multicolor lines
Off topic, but I'm curious about the technique Lewis Scott uses to make multicolored line drawings. It looks very old fashioned. How was this kind of thing originally produced? Here is his website: http://www.lewisscott.com/. And he has an illustration in the NY Times Sunday Aug 24 Week in Review section: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html?em
For more about Welo, and hand lettering in general
I'd suggest that you ask the folks who frequent the Type ID Board athttp://typophile.com/resources.
Nice work!