Applied arts in Iberia
Subtitle: 1880-(fin de siecle)-1920 : shopfronts
By: Alf Baker
Publisher: Prospect Hill Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Canterbury
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Other titles: Shopfronts.
Notes: Limited ed. of 150 numbered copies signed by the author.

'This is a book about the work of the unsung, yet highly creative designers, architects and craftsmen in Spain and Portugal during the Pre-Art Nouveau to the Pre-Art deco Period.' - publishers prospectus.

The colour printing Alf Baker and his daughter Nicola have developed is one of 'intaglio printing similar to that of George Baxter's 19th century Baxter Prints or to use an older art term Rilievo-stiacciato'. Printed and bound by hand, 6 mounted plates in up to 9 colours, heightened in gold or silver. The text is Souvenir medium, 18 on 20 point, condensed 70 %.