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NEW FROM OAK KNOLL PRESS =26 THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL LIBRARY

=22By helping to identify the processes and the storage needs of
photoreproductions,
this manual will greatly assist in the understanding and preservation of
these prints.=22
- Lois Olcott Price

ARCHITECTURAL REPRODUCTIONS: A MANUAL FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CARE
by El=E9onore Kissell =26 Erin Vigneau

Architectural Photoreproductions is designed for professional conservators,
librarians, private collectors, and researchers who want practical,
contemporary insight into preserving architectural plans. The authors
describe detailed methods for identifying architectural photoreproductions
based on visual examination. The manual prescribes twelve distinct processes
and offers additional information on several other methods commonly used in
North American architectural practice from 1860 to approximately 1960.

One of manual's important features is the Flowchart, an outline using a
series of questions leading the reader to a preliminary identification. Each
process is described in a separate chapter with numerous color illustrations
of general and magnified views of selected photoreproductions. Each chapter
includes sections on how to identify a print, trade names and synonyms, the
history and use of the printing process, how a print was manufactured, and
degradation and storage. Each of the 54 illustrations, critical for
identifying a document's state of condition and extent of damage, have been
carefully photographed and checked to ensure correct color identification.
Appendices give information on storage and handling, exhibition, and current
methods of reproduction of architectural prints and drawings.

The proper identification of photoreproduction prints, and the knowledge of
their constituent elements are crucial components of preserving an
architectural drawings collection as well as records storage, access,
exhibition, duplication and conservation.  Architectural Photoreproductions
is co-published by Oak Knoll Press and The New York Botanical Garden =
Library.


Paperback, 1999, 8.5=22 x 11=22, over 50 color illustrations, 138 pages.
ISBN 1-884718- 62-0 / Order=23 53905-W / Price: =2465.00 + shipping
NOW AVAILABLE

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