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Show 118 either by Bodmer or Bertrand, with the exception of the color printings that Bertrand had planned to offer exclusively for the French edition. However, it is useful to determine the approximate number of impressions of each plate produced. It is known how many prints were sent to Holscher for the German edition. Although there were many exceptions, the average number of impressions for each print sent to Colbenz included 250 black and white, forty-five chine colle, and sixty handcolored prints.55 Ackermann & Company agreed to accept two hundred sets of Travels' aquatints, all of which were to be printed on imperial vellum paper and intended for handcoloring that Ackermann would execute, following colored models Bodmer supplied. The London firm had commissioned an English translation of Travels and planned to produce its own atlas, complete with title page, using only handcolored prints.5** The prints sent to Ackermann significantly raised the number of colored prints eventually produced for Travels. The precise number is difficult to calculate, since by the time ten issues of prints had been completed, Ackermann & Company reduced the number of handcolored atlases it planned to produce from the original two hundred to one hundred copies.57 Therefore, some of the prints produced for the earlier issues of Travels had more impressions, printed on imperial vellum, than did those of the later issues.5** Difficulties in precise calculations are further compounded because it is unknown which color-printed plates--and their exact number-Bertrand chose for two of the subscription options offered for the French edition. By contract, Bertrand was free to choose between the black and white and the chine colle-these last both colored and |