ORME, Edward. An Essay on Transparent Prints and on Transparencies in general. London: for the author et al, 1807. 2o. Engraved title, 13 color illustrations on ten plates, 8 uncolored plates or half-page later including one double-page, & a leaf with specimens of colored papers. Modern quarter red morocco, extra leaf of text erroneously inserted in facsimile (genuine leaf misbound later), UNTRIMMED. FIRST EDITION of this curious and beautiful book. "Detailed instructions on making transparent prints by the inventor of the method. As an artist and publisher, Orme had promoted the fashion for transparencies and hoped even to spread it abroad, the text of this book being in French and English." Abbey, Life 230.

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ORME, Edward. An Essay on Transparent Prints and on Transparencies in general. London: for the author et al, 1807. 2o. Engraved title, 13 color illustrations on ten plates, 8 uncolored plates or half-page later including one double-page, & a leaf with specimens of colored papers. Modern quarter red morocco, extra leaf of text erroneously inserted in facsimile (genuine leaf misbound later), UNTRIMMED. FIRST EDITION of this curious and beautiful book. "Detailed instructions on making transparent prints by the inventor of the method. As an artist and publisher, Orme had promoted the fashion for transparencies and hoped even to spread it abroad, the text of this book being in French and English." Abbey, Life 230.