phototype
Americannoun
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a plate with a relief printing surface produced by photography.
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any process for making such a plate.
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a print made from it.
noun
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Example Sentences
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To preserve anatomical accuracy, the finer results of both photography and of the phototype process have had to be sacrificed.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
The publishers, who are gaining a world-wide reputation for their photo process reproductions, have added to this book a series of fine phototype plates.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
A phototype and a chromo-phototype, issued by the New Shakspere Society, are the best reproductions for the purposes of study.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
With 16 full-page phototype reproductions of water-color drawings, and text by F. Hopkinson Smith, profusely illustrated with pen-and ink sketches.
From The Other Fellow by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
The plates are phototype reproductions from photographs of Patroclus, taken in action by Baldwin Coolidge.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
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