Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester Volume 3 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...in peace and quietness. When at length Perkins's steel engraving had been taken up by several banks and publishers, and was beginning to yield him some fame and profit, other artists soon appeared to compete with him for both, claiming to have done the same work long before him! If the " transferring process" described in the patent of 1810 had in fact been practised before that time by the parties who, ten years later, denied his right as the original inventor, how came it to pass that no practical application of their plans for effecting the same process, nor any announcement of such, had ever come before the public until after those of Perkins had begun to bear fruit? At this distance of time it were bootless to dwell on those adverse claims that served to impede the labours of Mr. Perkins in his untiring efforts to prove the value of his new system for making and perpetuating exact copies of beautiful designs for printing on bank notes, or for illustrating books. Besides the printing on paper, as above described, Mr. Perkins's system for transferring designs and patterns has been very extensively applied (since he led the way in 1809) to calico-printing, and other ornamental fabrics, wherein his processes were directly copied by parties to whom he had minutely explained them in London. I had witnessed these communications, and warned Mr. Perkins of the danger of making them so loosely, but without effect. It seems " not worth while " to dwell on these cases now, or to name the parties so acting at that time. In later years we have seen the transferring process employed to a vast extent in many other departments of the graphic art, such as post-office and receipt stamps and other prints, required in greater numbers than could be taken...