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Re: Fredonia - which translations? quality?

From: <Leyonmarks~at~aol.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:10:01 EDT
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

in ref to your comment regarding poor quality of illustration reproduction in
Fredonia's Carpathian Castle edition, even the original images in the early
French and American editions are muddy looking, not having the crispness and
clarity of the woodcuts a decade or so earlier. I'm not sure why this is the
case, and as a former printmaker it frustrates me not to be able to determine
why. And it's not just Carpathian Castle,either. There appears to have been new,
or at least different, engraving techniques used in Hetzel editions of the
'90's prior to the advent of their using half-tone reproduction) that, at best,
captured more of the wash qualities of the original drawings, but frequently
loses that wonderful sharpness that defined earlier woodcut illustrations.
Perhaps it was a new group of engravers? -Roger Leyonmark
Received on Wed 16 Jul 2003 - 17:13:01 IDT

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