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BAXTER, GEORGE. The Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings, for the Year 1837. Frontispiece, title vignette, and 9 plates, all printed in color. 4to, publisher's dark red straight-grain morocco ornately gilt with varicolored morocco onlays, spine ends worn, joints and cover corners slightly rubbed; contents generally clean. London: Chapman & Hall, [1837]
first edition. "Baxter's most distinguished work in the field of book illustration" (Friedman), The Pictorial Album was intended to showcase his elaborate printing process for the reproduction of paintings. The preface summarizes the history of color printing and describes Baxter's patented technique, which involved the imposition of multiple oil color wood blocks over a monochrome key plate. Abbey Life 196; Friedman, Color Printing in England 50A-B; McLean (1974), page 17; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 100.
