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Show 137 53. See Appendix C, French prospectus. 54. Acta 1, no. 160. 55. These prints did not reflect the actual number of copies of the text Holscher had printed. Holscher had contracted to produce five hundred copies of the German text, one hundred of which were printed on imperial vellum paper, to be issued with the deluxe handcolored set of Travels' prints. However, subscriptions were so disappointing that projections were reduced and fewer prints were produced than originally planned. By December 1844, only 279 subscriptions had been sold, only sixty of which were for the deluxe edition. With the exception of those prints selected for the third subscription option, for which an average of 110 colored impressions were produced, Bodmer had shipped an average of sixty handcolored impressions of each print to Holscher. The majority of subscribers had chosen to purchase the least-expensive uncolored edition. Based upon the number of prints actually sent to Holscher, the number of complete sets for each of the five subscription options for the German edition was probably revised as follows: edition #1: all black and white prints, two hundred sets of prints, (no change). edition #2: uncolored chine colle and edition #4; sixty one uncolored chine colle, twenty colored.(Fifty sets had been planned for each of these editions, the total number of chine coll£ prints actually produced totaled an average of forty-five impressions). edition #3: sixty-one black and white and twenty colored, one hundred sets planned, fifty produced. edition #5; all handcolored. one hundred sets planned, sixty produced. See Appendix A, Vignettes & Tableaus, for the number of each print sent to Holscher. 56. Although it appears that the experimental color printings had been intended for the French edition of Travels, examples of these plates have been reported in several of the bound atlases produced by Ackermann & Company. These colored prints were printed by Adolphe Leconte in variously colored washes, rubbed directly onto the plates. Princeton University Library holds one such atlas, completely printed in color. The opinion of Alfred Bush, the curator of the collection, is that these are some of the most beautiful of all the prints, since-while there is a suggestion of color-none of the detail of the etching is obscured. The Huntington Free Library, New York City, The |
