How to Identify Prints : A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet

Learn how to identify: manual prints - engravings, woodcuts, etchings, drypoints, mezzotints, aquatints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes and cliches-verres process prints - line blocks, relief halftones, nature prints, photogalvanographs, tone photogravures, gravures, colour relief, intaglio and planographic prints screenprints and non-prints. Keys to identification: images with printed text, words below the image, the plate mark, how the ink lies, varieties of line, tone and colour, is the image printed?, original or reproduction?, embossing, colour print or coloured print?, tint or colour?, paper.