The Secrets of 1880s Iris Printing, Explained
Matthew McLennan Young
In my book The Rise and Fall of the Printers’ International Specimen Exchange (Oak Knoll Press, 2012), I showed in 4-color-process a specimen of two color analyses from Volume IX of the Exchange: one of the stars, the other of alkali and alkaline earth metals. Only the first three volumes of the Exchange included notes on the specimens; details about later specimens were difficult to come by, and for most of those I listed only contributor names as they appeared in the volumes. [Read more]