CONTENTS.

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Preface[v.]
Introduction[ 1]
Wood Engraving[9]
Engraving on Copper and Steel[27]
Lithography[58]
Chromo-Lithography[65]
Photo-Lithography[65]
Drawing for Photo-Litho. and Process Work[67]
Process Blocks—Line Work[69]
” Half-tone Blocks[83]
Hints to Collectors of Ex Libris[91]
“Au Revoir”[95]

EX LIBRIS ILLUSTRATIONS.

R. S. Mansergh—Armorial, printed in tinctures
by Chromo-Lithography[Frontispiece]
Modern Engraved Plates—Facing
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R. Day, F.S.A., engraved by C. W. Sherborn,
printed from the copper-plate[27]
R. Day, F.S.A.—Vesica Armorialprinted by[ 1]
lithography
R. S. Mansergh—Armorial”[42]
Edward Cox—Circular Armorial”[45]
W. H. K. Wright, F.R.HIST.SOC.”
—Library Interior[47]
R. Day, F.S.A.—Pictorial, Etching”[48]
R. J. Welland, Bishop of Down and Connor”
and Dromore[52]
J. F. Wilson—Circular Armorial”[54]
J. Neville Cross—Circular Seal Armorial”[56]

Lithographed and Photo-Lithographed Examples—

Joseph McChesney—Pictorial[58]
Robert Day, F.S.A.—Library Interior[60]
Fredk. Arthur Beale—Armorial[62]
Wood Institute, Rugby—Decorative[64]
Robert Day, F.S.A.—Ogham, Landscape, etc.[66]
Free Public Library, Belfast—Decorative Arm.[70]
Rev. J. H. Bibby—Library Interior[72]
Robert Cochrane, C.E., F.R.I.B.A., F.S.A., etc.—Armorial  [80]

EX LIBRIS ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT,

Reproduced by Process Blocks.

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J. H. Fryer—Etching, Landscape, by Lambert, Newcastle[ 1]
Brandenburg or Buxheim plate—Early wood engraving[ 8]
Hans Igler plate—Early wood engraving (double-page)[14]
Kress of Kressenstein, by Albert Dürer[17]
Wm. Taylor, by Bewick—Wood engraving[19]
(No name)””[21]
Kress of Kressenstein, by Hans Troschel, engraved on copper[28]
Samuel Pepys—Portrait plate by R. White, engraved on copper[31]
Henʸ. Jaˢ. Pye—Chippendale plate by Playner[33]
—— Barrow—Armorial Book-pile, by Lightboune, engraved on copper[36]
William Cowper—Decorative Armorial, engraved on copper[39]
Ellis Gamble—Decorative Armorial, by William Hogarth, engraved on copper[40]
William Hogarth—Decorative Monogram plate, engraved on copper[41]
Edw. Loveden Loveden—Engraved on copper[44]
H. Stamford—Pictorial, etching on copper[49]
James NeildTwo Pictorial Etchings by Bewick[51]
—— Spence
Joseph Pollard””[53]
Chas. Fenwick
Charles Bragge—Urn Armorial, etching[57]
Arthur Vicars, F.S.A., Ulster King of Arms—Pen and ink, by Rev. W. FitzGerald[68]
Francis Joseph Bigger, M.R.I.A.—(Old Belfast) Pen and ink[70]
Robert Day, F.S.A.—Armorial Masonic[72]
Walter Besant, M.A.—Library Interior[74]
Francis Joseph Bigger—Armorial[76]
George Rollo—Smithy Interior[78]
F. D. Ward, J.P., M.R.I.A., CH.L.H.—Armorial[80]
I. M. F. H. Stone, M.A., F.L.S., F.C.S.—Armorial[82]
Arthur Acton—Emblematic[84]
Belfast Art Society, 3 sizes—Emblematic[86]
Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club[88]
Masonic Province of Down—Armorial Masonic[90]
John Vinycomb, M.R.I.A.—Armorial[96]
Fine Half-tone Process Blocks—Facing
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Antiquarian subject, reproduced from Mono-tint Drawing[83]
Virgin and Child, reproduced by Aquatint Engraving[89]
George G. Ward, reproduced from Design in Colours for Stained Glass[93]
Vinicombe Bey, reproduced from Soft-ground Etching[94]
ILLUSTRATIVE CUTS IN TEXT.
Franklin Press, now at Philadelphia[iv.]
Caxton’s “Printer’s Mark”[9]
Form-Schneider at Work[13]
Engraver’s Knife, from Papillon’s Treatise, 1766  [15]
Press of Ascensius[16]
Engraver’s Tools[24]
Mode of Engraving[25]
Copper-plate Printing Press[46]
Lithographic Printing Press[58]

Transfer, direct from Engraved plate to stone.

Etching on copper by Lambert, Newcastle, reproduced by process block.

From the collection of W. H. K. Wright.

ON THE PROCESSES FOR THE
PRODUCTION OF EX LIBRIS.

By John Vinycomb, M.R.I.A.