Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A printing-plate for one color only made for a print which is to be fully developed, in a perfect copy, by the printing of other colors from separately prepared plates.
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Examples
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It's a beautiful hardback running at around a thousand pages and illustrated throughout, including one gorgeous color-plate that you can see here ...
Archive 2009-03-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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It's a beautiful hardback running at around a thousand pages and illustrated throughout, including one gorgeous color-plate that you can see here...
The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard Reis O'Brien 2009
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There was but one picture — a magazine color-plate of a steep-roofed village in the Harz Mountains which suggested kobolds and maidens with golden hair.
Main Street 2004
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The black impression approved of by the lithographer, the stone is again cleaned with turpentine and proved in the color required, and so with each color-plate, until the proof is complete.
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He proceeds to draw each color-plate successively, at all times adhering closely to the red chalk outlines, filling in with tusche where full strength of the color is required and using lithographic crayon or the stipple process to reproduce the various gradations of this color in order to secure the full color value of each printing.
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There was but one picture -- a magazine color-plate of a steep-roofed village in the Harz Mountains which suggested kobolds and maidens with golden hair.
Main Street 1920
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There was but one picture -- a magazine color-plate of a steep-roofed village in the Harz Mountains which suggested kobolds and maidens with golden hair.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"It says, 'Here open your prospectus and turn to the first color-plate.'"
The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911
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In my experience, the Alken is amongst the rarest, if not the rarest, of all 19th century color-plate books.
Book Patrol 2010
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I've had many color-plate books pass through my hands over the years.
Book Patrol 2010
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