Project Gutenberg 2011-01-07 Public domain in the USA. 127 Hill, Thomas George 1876 1954 16005174 The Essentials of Illustration A Practical Guide to the Reproduction of Drawings & Photographs for the Use of Scientists & Others Produced by Lesley Halamek, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Essentials of Illustration" by T. G. Hill is a practical guide to the reproduction of drawings and photographs, focusing on the needs of scientists and illustrators, written in the early 20th century. The book delves into various printing techniques, including intaglio, plane surface, relief, and photo-mechanical processes, while emphasizing the principles behind effective scientific illustration. Notably, it addresses the common deficiencies in scientific publications and offers insights on achieving high-quality illustrations for academic work. At the start of this guide, the author outlines the significance of illustrations in scientific documentation, particularly in botanical studies, and critiques the generally low standards maintained in contemporary works. He reflects on the artistic quality seen in earlier scientific literature and identifies issues such as poor draughtsmanship and inadequate knowledge of reproduction methods as primary reasons for inferior illustrations. By introducing a series of lectures planned at the University of London, Hill aims to remedy these shortcomings, sharing his experiences with different illustration techniques and the intuitive processes that govern high-quality scientific illustration. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Illustration of books Engraving -- Printing Photomechanical processes NE Text Browsing: Art & Photography Browsing: How To... 197580 194846 2024-09-14T14:09:09.836317 2023-09-15T08:50:20.988019 text/html text/html 189631 2021-01-07T09:41:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 11186852 2021-01-07T09:41:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 11110194 2024-09-14T14:10:02.225501 application/epub+zip 11084911 2024-09-14T14:09:32.034698 application/epub+zip 122907 2024-09-14T14:09:10.961266 application/epub+zip 14146420 2024-09-14T14:10:10.595487 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 14100929 2024-09-14T14:09:39.634665 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 160286 2022-09-16T05:40:59.504327 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 152243 152037 2024-09-14T14:09:08.742295 2023-09-15T08:50:19.875994 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 152248 2021-01-07T09:41:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 53535 2021-01-07T09:41:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 152256 2021-01-07T09:41:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 53489 2021-01-07T09:41:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20393 2024-09-14T14:10:10.829531 application/rdf+xml 13856 2024-09-14T14:09:11.326789 image/jpeg 3271 2024-09-14T14:09:11.143763 image/jpeg 11239287 2024-09-14T14:09:10.200287 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog