Chromoxylography
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Chromoxylography was a colour woodblock printing process popular in the mid to late-19th and early-20th centuries, commonly used to produce illustrations in children's books, serial pulp magazine such as mysteries and romances, and cover art for yellow-backs and penny dreadfuls.
In the 19th century the art of relief engraving and chromoxylography was widely used and perfected for the children's book market, most notably in England by Victorian engraver and printer Edmund Evans.
Chromoxylography allowed a variety of hues and tones to be produced by color mixing. The process was complicated and required intricate engraving and printing to achieve good results. Less expensive products, such as pulp magazines, were coloured with as few colours as possible, often only two or three; paintings, for which the engraver and printer might use as many as 12 colours, were also successfully reproduced with the process.
