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Nonpareil, Life size. Birds, illustrated by color photography, Vol. I. No. I. January, 1897. Price 15 cents. $1.50 a year. Once a month / Nature Study Publishing Company, Office: Fisher Building, Chicago
1 photomechanical print : three-color halftone ; 25 x 18 cm
Description
One of "120 three-color Half-tone illustrations from photographs of stuffed birds. Plates by the Chicago Colortype Co., Chicago, Ill...This undertaking was the most ambitious three-color work to this date. These plates were also some of the most enduring, still being found in publications into the 1950s."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 128
In: Birds; a monthly serial illustrated by color photography designed to promote knowledge of bird-life, Jan. 1897-June 1898. Chicago : Nature study pub. co. [etc.], 1897. Frontispiece
Source
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
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