Practical hints on decorative printing
Subtitle: with illustrations engraved on wood, and printed in colours at the type press
By: by William Savage.
Publisher: Published for the proprietor, by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ...
Published: 1822
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Color printing; Wood-engraving -- 19th century -- Great Britain
Notes: Added engraved t.p., in colour.

"Address" dated March 25th, 1823.

Plates include 30 colour illustrations and 6 leaves of coloured ink samples, as well as an example of successive printing; colour plates made using from 2 to 29 blocks; also includes examples of plates printed from defaced blocks (9 plates on 5 leaves at end).

Includes dedication leaf to Lord Spencer, subscriber's list.

Originally issued in two parts; part I published separately in Nov. 1818.

MASS copy: Large paper issue on India paper, one of 100 copies. With the bookplate of Ruari McLean.  Bound in green diaper-grain cloth, with spine blocked in gold and blind. A later binding as this grain of cloth first came into use in the mid-1830s.  Some plates misbound.