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by Intaglio methods, and then proceeding to add the colour-tones printed by the Letterpress method, will in the result be a compound print of both Relief and Intaglio methods of Printing and Engraving, exactly as in the Process of Baxter. With our knowledge of the Processes of Le Blon and Kirkall, we find the old adage verified, " That there is nothing new under the sun"; as in the case of Le Blon's three-colour Process, the only difference of this twentieth-century method is that to- day we have the use of the camera for making the three-colour half-tone blocks for superimposing to produce the colour picture, whereas Le Blon used three Mezzotint plates engraved by hand. Probably few of the operators of the present-day Process realise that its principles were in use over 200 years ago. So with Kirkall's method, 100 years later Baxter adopted its principles; the only difference being that he used a later Process of Engraving the foundation plate, i.e., Aquatint, and instead of using only two or three Relief blocks, increased the numbers from four to twenty and in some cases up to thirty. Kirkall's Process was also the model for the various works of Le Sueur, Pond, and Knapton up to about 1760, when it apparently lapsed, and was superseded in the public favour by the eighteenth century "Stipple Prints" we all know so well. Having briefly intro- duced the earliest methods of Pictorial Colour Printing in Relief and Intaglio methods, we will go a step further to the period when Baxter commenced his Process, and as Colour Printing cannot be done without Coloured Inks, we come to the name of William Savage, also a Yorkshire- man, who was born at How den in 1770, and who produced a book entitled "Practical Hints on Decorative Printing," which to all intents and purposes was a Typographical specimen to demonstrate his n^w

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