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A Great Step Forward

Booklet
1921 (issued)
Artist/Maker
The Curwen Press (publishers)
Claud Lovat Fraser (designer)
Place of origin
England (published)

Booklet cover

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Printmaking Techniques
Books
Ephemera
Prints
Object type
Booklet
TitleA Great Step Forward (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Colour line-block print
Printing Ink
Line Block Printing
Brief description
Claude Lovat Fraser. Booklet entitled A Great Step Forward, advertising the new comptometer (an early calculator), with cover and ten illustrations. English, 1921.
Physical description
Booklet cover
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.375in
  • Width: 5.375in
Gallery label
(1983)
High contrast black and white negatives are required to make line-blocks but the blocks can, of course, be printed in any colour. A separate block is required for each colour.

Printmaking Techniques Gallery, Henry Cole Wing
Credit line
Given by Desmond Coke
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1924, published under the Authority of the Board of Education, London, 1926.
  • Millard, C. The printed work of Claud Lovat Fraser. London. 1923.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2109-1924

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Record createdAugust 17, 2005
Record URL
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