Specimen of printing inks, manufactured by Shackell & Edwards, Coppice Row, Clerkenwell, London.
Publisher: Shackell & Edwards
Published: 1853
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Printing -- Specimens.; Printing ink -- Specimens
Notes: Leaf [3] dated 1853; other leaves refer to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Includes 21 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, and C. Whittingham.

List of 31 [i.e. 32] coloured inks with prices; sample printings of each colour (numbered 1-31, includes 8 and 8*, and lacking 24).

MASS copy 1: Lacking 12 leaves in black and white. With presentation inscription from James Spence Harry of Shackell & Edwards to M. Perrin of Lyon, dated 3 July 1858. Bound in brown morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.

MASS copy 2: Bound with two other ink specimens. Bound in half black leather and black dot and line-grain cloth, with title blocked in gold on spine, misspelling Schackell for Shackell.