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How to work it; a manual for the use of the Ben Day rapid shading mediums and its registry attachments

Day, Ben, Inc, Day, Benjamin, 1838-1916 · 1913 · New York, Reprint by Ben Day, inc. · 11 pictures

A trade instruction manual issued by Ben Day, Inc. in New York in 1913, teaching commercial artists and engravers to operate the Ben Day shading-screen machine and its registry attachments. Numbered line engravings show the clamped frame, screen plate, roller and stylus on a workbench, with gloved hands in mid-operation—usable as period tool diagrams, hand studies and technical figure captions.

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