Specimen of printing inks, manufactured by Shackell & Edwards, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London.
Contributors: Judd & Glass
Publisher: Shackell & Edwards
Published: 1856
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Printing -- Specimens.; Printing ink -- Specimens
Notes: Includes 14 leaves of samples of printing in black and white using Shackell & Edwards inks, from a number of printers including Spottiswoode and Co., R. & R. Clark, Clowes and Sons, Edmund Evans and Whittingham & Wilkins.

List of 32 coloured inks with prices; sample printings of each colour (numbered 1-32, includes 19 and 19*, and lacking 32).

Differs from the 1853 specimen (other than the change of address of the firm on t.p.) chiefly in having 32 rather than 31 ink colours listed, and in having fewer and different examples of black and white printing.

Illustration of the firm's offices in Red Lion Court and the factory in Hornsey Rd with imprint: Judd & Glass.

MASS copy 2: Bound with the firm's Specimen of printing inks. [London, 1853], copy 2. Illustration depicting the firm's offices in Red Lion Court bound as frontispiece to 1853 specimen. Bound in half black leather and black dot and line-grain cloth, with title blocked in gold on spine, misspelling Schackell for Shackell.