Teyler, Johannes, 1648-approximately 1709. Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner. DLC Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC text [Holland] , 1693. dut Teyler set up a print shop in Rotterdam in 1688 after developing a method for making color impressions from a single plate. This folio volume contains 51 examples of his work and demonstrates the quality of this color reproductive process. He was the first colour printer from copper plates and and colored on the plate itself, printing from one impression. Less than four hundred of his prints have survived. Before Teyler, all attempts at color printing were executed on a platen press, where the design was cut in relief into woodblocks or metal, ink was applied to the surface of the block and transferred to paper when the platen was brought down with about one pound of pressure per square inch. For every color, another pass through the press was required, making it a very expensive, time consuming and exacting work. Consists of a title page with a mounted vignette, and 50 plates (most of them mounted) on 37 leaves. Eight other plates by Teyler are inserted. All the plates and the title vignette are color prints, overpainted in part. LC copy has letters referring to the inserted plates, and a photostat of the title page of the artist's "Opus typo-chromaticum" are mounted on the inside of the back cover. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Handwritten note in pencil on front paste-down reads: "Teyler (Johannes). The earliest specimen of true Colour Printing." Accompanied by documentation: including bookseller's blurb about Teyler with Levis' handwritten notes, handwritten memo on E. Parsons & Sons, Fine Art Dealers, London letterhead, dated April 28, [19]19 and typewritten note on R. W. P. De Vries letterhead from 1924 mounted on back paste-down. Conserved Netherlands Rotterdam. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.1448.1