Highlights included The Treasury of Ornamental Art, with a frontispiece combining reddish-brown print, yellow-orange watercolour, and blue pencil, and typographic elements drawn in negative. Its introduction references photographic colour reproduction, suggesting a post-1885 date.
Loose plates from the 1904 Fairy Tales of Perrault show consistent palettes with crayon textures, stippling, and penwork. The Fauna Palaearctica supplement offers 14 butterfly plates in browns and blacks, drawn with pen and stipple.
Segui’s posters feature typographic black, while one Treasury plate includes gold and purplish-blue. I was happy to see the annotations on the reverse of various plates made by Twyman, indicating colour counts, just like I am doing. I closed the day with notes from Reading’s children’s book catalogue.
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