Barta-Griffin Printing Inks Sample Book
- Boston, Massachusetts: Barta-Griffin Company, 1950
Boston, Massachusetts: Barta-Griffin Company, 1950. Very good. Light toning. Dust soiling/minor scuffing to upper cover. Minor warping/wrinkling to glassine leaves.. A book of dozens of printing ink samples by the Barta-Griffin Company, including: standard colors; label colors overprinted with varnish; standard process colors; halftone inks; dull finish halftone colors; magazine black; and standard bond colors. There are also fifteen (15) samples of printing inks on delicate glassine, for glassine wrappers. Each sample is labeled with a title and order number. They are organized first by printing process, and then by color. A valuable primary resource for researching printing history. Single vol. (7.75" by 10.5"), pp. 126, illus., original red wrappers backed in red cloth, upper cover embossed in gold with title. Includes glassine leaves.