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.
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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 Theodore Ayrault Dodge
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 Sir Sidney Lee
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 Francis Hopkinson Smith
What the same eminent scholar gives us now is a reproduction in phototype of "L'Exemplaire."
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
The best of the available substitutes, phototype reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.
From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Addison Van Name
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