four, eight, and twelve-em pica lengths. The corner pieces are made in two, three, and four-em pica squares. The manner of embossing with these borders is fully explained in another part of this work.
Plate 56.—This plate represents a business card printed in gold and three colors, lying across a page framed with an embossed border. The first color printed was a gray tint as a solid ground for the page above and below the card; then the orange tint was printed solid in the card, and as a figured pattern on the inside of the page over the gray tint; then the gold was printed in solid bands on the card; then figured borders were printed in green over the gold bands; then all of the type matter and the outlines of the card were printed in color No. 81, which is one of the dark tones of orange. Finally, the embossing border was printed in a pearl tint, and embossed at the same time. The card is an excellent example of the harmony of relative colors —all of the colors, including gold, being closely related to yellow.
Plate 57.—This plate represents a handsome cover page, printed first in gray, then in gold, then in a figured sea-green tint over the gray, then in deep blue, and then in one of the dark tones of red; the gold bands were then embossed.
Plate 58.—Fig. 341 on this plate was first printed in a light green, and then in copper bronze. It was then embossed with a box-wood plate, containing nine different patterns made with soft steel punches. The outlines of the plate were cut with a round graver.
Plate 59.—This plate was first printed in a flesh tint and then in one of the dark tones of orange. The sheet was then embossed with a plate made with four of the punches used on Plate 58.
Plate 60.—This plate shows an imitation of both sides of leather paper, embossed. Fig. 343, representing the right side, was printed in a deep photo-brown, and was then embossed with an electrotype, taken from a sheet of embossed tin used by trunk-makers; the type matter was then printed over it in green bronze.
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