[Rarebooks] FS: 1894 Meisenbach Process Illustrated History of Mansfield England

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“The History of Mansfield. Illustrated with Twelve Plates by the 
Meisenbach process, from Photographs expressly taken by the Sherwood 
Photographic Company”

By William Horner Groves.
Published in Nottingham by Frank Murray in 1894.

DISCUSSION: A book of great interest to photographic historians as an 
early example of a book using an important, identified halftone process. 
First patented in 1882, the Meisenbach process was the first halftone 
process to be widely used by publishers.

Wikipedia provides a little background- "William Fox Talbot is credited 
with the idea of halftone printing. In the early 1850s, he suggested 
using "photographic screens or veils" in connection with a photographic 
intaglio process. Several different kinds of screens were proposed 
during the following decades. One of the well known attempts was by 
Stephen H. Horgan while working for the New York Daily Graphic. The 
first printed photograph was an image of Steinway Hall in Manhattan 
published on December 2, 1873. The Graphic then published "the first 
reproduction of a photograph with a full tonal range in a newspaper" on 
March 4, 1880 (entitled "A Scene in Shantytown") with a crude halftone 
screen. The first truly successful commercial method was patented by 
Frederic Ives of Philadelphia in 1881. Although he found a way of 
breaking up the image into dots of varying sizes, he did not make use of 
a screen. In 1882, the German Georg Meisenbach patented a halftone 
process in England. His invention was based on the previous ideas of 
Berchtold and Swan. He used single lined screens which were turned 
during exposure to produce cross-lined effects. He was the first to 
achieve any commercial success with relief halftones."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6"x9", xii + 428 + 3 pages, 12 b/w plates. 
Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles.

CONDITION NOTES: Light cover rubbing, some very, very minor scattered 
foxing, but overall a handsome copy.

PRICE: $85 -

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