[Gutenberg 60972] • A Practical Hand-book of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction

Excerpt from A Practical Hand-Book of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction

Dear Mr. Morley,

It is with a peculiar satisfaction that I inscribe this book to yourself, for to you more than to any other occupant of an editorial chair is due the position held by "process" in illustrating the hazards and happenings of each succeeding week.

Time was when the "Pall Mall Budget" with a daring originality never to be forgotten, illustrated the news with diagrams fashioned heroically from the somewhat limited armoury of the compositor. Nor I nor my contemporaries, I think, have forgotten those weapons of offence - the brass rules, hyphens, asterisks, daggers, braces, and other common objects of the type-case - with which the Northumberland Street printers set forth the details of a procession, or the configuration of a country.