. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. I'JMir lo C'i\IIM HIND-PRINTED BOOK CO\'ER. Abuut 1850. (From the Constance Meade Collection, Oxford University Press.) printed tickets, and the borders were again embossed by Dobbs. Other compound prints dating from the 1820s are to be found on the ream labels that sealed bales of paper on leaving the makers. These were probably the work of the Somerset House press. Branston and Whiting printed compound-plate lottery tickets and bills for various betting until private lotteries were made illegal in 1827. From about 1830 the process
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. I'JMir lo C'i\IIM HIND-PRINTED BOOK CO\'ER. Abuut 1850. (From the Constance Meade Collection, Oxford University Press.) printed tickets, and the borders were again embossed by Dobbs. Other compound prints dating from the 1820s are to be found on the ream labels that sealed bales of paper on leaving the makers. These were probably the work of the Somerset House press. Branston and Whiting printed compound-plate lottery tickets and bills for various betting until private lotteries were made illegal in 1827. From about 1830 the process was used on labels of manufactured goods, paper wrappers for series of books, government duty seals for patent medicines (figure 12) and the decora- i^)^ .1. O. n-prc!^ r.'i •^ny. ctTtttin <Visr!« MiSnufacniror. ihiis, "GILOrr,-or" ! or c. „. ,,, ,, ,.,« « >unil—plca-sc t(i o! K I'rSS AKK '.Ki ; il (.;;" ..vv,v r;i .K< I i'Mr. a ;i- sitnilo of i,\-* .si;rnatuir. lliu,-* figure |y.— from a pen nib bo.\. Mid-19th century. (From the Constance Meade Collection, University Press.) ti\'e borders of official documents. The process probably survived longest at Somerset House where it was still being used for government medicine seals in 1920," In about 1824 Whiting and Branston acquired the patent rights for compound printing from ; Congreve returned to his other interests and from this time he played no active part in connection with the process, though he continued to have Whiting print his pamphlets. Tiie association between Whiting and Branston continued until Branston's death in 1827.^' Branston"s son broke with Whiting to go into partner- ship with Henry Vizetelly, another wood engraver. For a time the new firm, Branston and Vizetelly, used the separate elements of compound plates for page ornaments, but they never made true compound prints. Congreve died in 1828 and
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