( CHAPMAN AND ila 
DOLL Ye 

Figure 18.—CoMPOUND-PRINTED BOOK COVER. About 
Constance Meade Collection, 
Oxford University Press.) 
1850. (From the 
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 
various betting houses until private lotteries 
1830 the 
process was used on labels of manufactured goods, 
bilis for 
were made illegal in 1827. From about 
paper wrappers for series of books, government duty 
seals for patent medicines (figure 12) and the decora- 

J. G. regrets to say, eertain disreputabl 
Makers have tried taimpase upon the Public a 
spurious article, bearing the mis-spelied name: 
of the Patentee and Soft Mdnufacturer, thus,” 
* GILOTT,” or‘ GILLOT," so as to retain the? 
found— —please to observe, ALL THE GENU a 
PENS ARK MARKED IN FULL.“ JOSEP 
GILLOT?;” and every — bears a face 
simile of bis Signature 4 
PFE] Tom | LL, Ty i 
oo an nnn 
Figure 19.—Compounp pRINT from a pen nib box. 
Mid-19th century. (From the Constance Meade 
Collection, Oxford University Press.) 
tive borders of official documents. The process 
probably survived longest at Somerset House where 
it was still being used for government medicine seals 
im, 1920H° 
In about 1824 Whiting and Branston acquired the 
patent rights for compound printing from Congreve.” 
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. The association between Whiting and 
Branston continued until Branston’s death in 1827.7! 
Branston’s son broke with Whiting to go into partner- 
ship with Henry Vizetelly, 
For a time the new firm, Branston and Vizetelly, used 
another wood engraver. 
the separate elements of compound plates for page 
ornaments, but they never made true compound 
prints. Congreve died in 1828 and his widow mar- 
ried James Whiting ** who moved to Beaufort House, 
There James, 
in the Strand in London. and later 
19 Str E. D. Bacon, The line engraved postage stamps printed 
by Perkins, Bacon and Company (London: C. Nissen, 1920), p. 5. 
20 R. M. Burcu, Colour printing and colour printers (London: 
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1910), p. 122. The dates 
Burch gives for these transactions are inaccurate. 
21 A unique album, probably the firm’s record, was preserved 
until recently in London. It consisted of hand-painted designs, 
progressive proofs showing engravings at different stages, 
prints from blocks separated and united, and test pieces of 
machine engraving and lettering, all pasted into a guard book. 
The original is lost, but a photostatic copy survives in the 
Constance Meade Collection in Oxford. 
2 Sir E. D. Bacon, loc. cit. (footnote 19). 
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