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W. T. Wilkinson

Best known for practical late-19th-century books on photo-engraving and photo-lithography, this technical writer helped explain the fast-changing world of photomechanical printing in clear, hands-on terms.

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Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone Also Collotype and Heliotype

Photo-engraving, Photo-etching and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone Also Collotype and Heliotype

by W. T. Wilkinson

About the author

W. T. Wilkinson was a British 19th-century author associated with early photomechanical printing. Surviving catalog and museum records connect him with detailed manuals on photo-engraving, photo-etching, photo-lithography, collotype, and related processes.

His best-known works include Photo-engraving, Photo-etching, and Photo-lithography in Line and Half-tone; also, Collotype and Heliotype (published in 1888, with later editions) and Photo-mechanical Processes, a practical guide to photo-zincography, photo-lithography, and collotype. These books were aimed at working printers, engravers, and photographers, and they show how important process photography had become to publishing and image reproduction at the end of the 1800s.

Very little biographical information appears to be readily available online beyond his publications. Even so, Wilkinson's books remain useful historical guides to the craft and technology of reproduction printing, and they continue to be preserved by libraries and digital archives.