Abstract
IT is refreshing to find that the text of the second photographic work issued by these publishers is not made subservient to the advertisement of photographic specialties. The work before us is written by a gentleman well known for his practical rather than his theoretical acquaintance with photography. We thus have an account of the practical working of various processes, with a small modicum of theory. The chapters on silver printing and carbon printing are very clear and complete, and if followed out will lead the amateur to successful results. When we come to the photo-mechanical processes, however, there is at first sight presumable evidence of a lack of intimate knowledge of the subject. It may be, however, that there is a greater difficulty in describing these operations than in the ordinary printing processes to which we have alluded. We doubt very much if the descriptions given would enable a tyro to progress at a rapid rate. For the enthusiastic photographer who has time to experiment the directions would suffice to enable him to commence in the right way, and though at first he would inevitably blunder, yet he would after a sufficient number of disasters produce results which he might take a certain amount of pride in showing to his immediate friends, who would be likely to appraise them higher than at their market price.
Practical Guide to Photographic and Photo-Mechanical Printing Processes.
By W. K. Burton. (London: Marion and Co., 1887.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 37, 485 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037485a0
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