Identifier: from1800to1900wo00morr (find matches)
Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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advance has been made in pictorial art.Methods of engraving have been very greatly cheapened, and the photographhas supplied the world with an enormous multitude of faithful counterpartsof nature. Among the many ways in which this form of art has beenapplied, one of the most useful is that of book illustration. The ordinarypicture-book of the beginning of the century was an eye-sore of frightfulGreat Progress character, its only alleviation being that the cost of illustra-in Pictorial tions prevented many of them being given. The half-tone* method of reproduction of photographs has made a wonder-ful development in this direction, pictures that faithfully reproduce in blackand white scenes of nature or works of art being now made with suchcheapness that book illustrations of superior character have grown veryabundant, and it has become possible to illustrate effectively the daily news-paper, laying before us in pictorial form the scenes of events that happened only a few hours before.
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