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[HOW THE IMAGE WAS PRINTED IN 1920s] Khudozhestvennyye pechatnyye formy [i.e. Printing Techniques]

Shultz, A.

Item #2471

Petrograd: State Educational and Practical School and Printing House named after Comrade Alekseev, 1923. [10], 176 p. 22×16.4 cm. 1 of 1000 copies. In publisher's printed wrapper. Very good condition. One piece of the spine is missing from the lower side.

This book is one of the first examples of a specialized textbook for the printing schools in Russia, dedicated to the topic of the printing techniques. Alexei Karlovich Shulz (1885-1942) was the professor of such school, Educational and Practical School and Printing House named after Comrade Alekseev, that was found in Saint-Petersburg shortly after the Civil War. The school
existed throughout 1920s, eventually becoming a base for Publishing and Printing College, that is still functioning in the city. Schulz was heading a course on the printing techniques with the focus on different methods of transmitting the images into the page. Schulz has worked in the main print shop of the Russian Empire pre-1917, Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, later he has headed a number of print shops, including the one named after Ivan Fyodorov, which has produced many important Soviet photo-books in 1930s. He has died in 1942 in Leningrad, as a victim of the blockade.
This book is important as it shows how exactly the pre-revolutionary printing techniques were introduced to Soviet book-production. In the book Shultz dedicates space to the traditional methods of printing, including the woodblocks, etching and lithography, but most of the book is focused on the more avant-garde methods of transmitting the image, how to produce photographic images better. Heliogravure, photo-zinkography, prototypic method as well as anastatic printing are all discussed at length.

Not in the Worldcat.

Price: $550.00