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THIS is the second issue after the war, and there is evidence that the editor has now been able to resume the high level of quality that he had attained before the publication of these instructive annuals was interrupted by the exigencies of military service. The volume may not be quite so thick as, but it seems to us superior to, last year's in many ways, especially in the quality and variety of its specimens of reproduction. The editor, in his summing up of the year's progress, finds no striking new departure to record, though there is much evidence of progress in many directions. The activity during the year has been rather in laying foundations that may well be expected to lead to future advances than in the realisation of improvements. Rotary photogravure holds its own, and is doubtless firmly established, as in the Times Weekly Edition Illustrated Supplement, but it appears that the production of the cylinders cannot be ensured within the short time necessary to enable a daily newspaper to be produced entirely by this process. The shortage of skilled labour in the process trade is becoming acute.
Penrose's Annual. Vol. xxiii. of The Process Year Book and Review of the Graphic Arts, 1921.
Edited by William Gamble. Pp. xii + 88 + plates. (London: Percy Lund, Humphries, and Co., Ltd.; Bradford: The Country Press, 1921.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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Penrose's Annual Vol xxiii of The Process Year Book and Review of the Graphic Arts, 1921. Nature 106, 755 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106755a0
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