The mottled and overlapped hat in the same ink suggests to me this was lithographed, not letterpressed. I would guess there won't be a metal-type "smoking gun" here. (View Post)
I knew from Thibaudeau's La Lettre d'Imprimerie that the French term is "empattement," but this thread inspired me to look into that French word and I was delighted to learn that besides &q… (View Post)
I'm in the midst of a sizable research project on Auriol. It was developed in the context of a late-19th-c. Parisian fascination with Japanese visual culture, and its "brushy" strokes and g… (View Post)