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Excerpt from A Guide to Collodio-Etching For many years a want has been felt, especially among amateurs, for some simple and inexpensive method of duplicating their sketches and studies for the benefit of their friends. Bringing home pictures from a summer's vacation trip, or from a foreign land, many have desired to share their pleasure with others, and yet could not give away their original drawings. Thus they have had recourse to various means for the copying of their productions. Some have tried lithography, making the drawings, and getting a lithographic printer to do the presswork; others have tried copper-plate etching, and of course, have had to call in the printer's aid, until, a short time ago, Mr. Hammerton invented a small press for home use. Some have had their pictures photographed, while others, of late years, have made pen and ink drawings, and had them photo-engraved and printed on a common letter press. Many more have adopted the portable camera outfit and given up sketching altogether. Nearly all these methods have been tried by the writer and found inconvenient, expensive, and troublesome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.