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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4109999, member: 56&quot;]No publication date?&nbsp; Might be in the back of the book.&nbsp; From the page you show that combines picture and text, it looks like the picture has been &quot;tipped in&quot;.&nbsp; That means it&#039;s a separate piece of paper that was glued into a space left above the printed text.&nbsp; This was common practice for color illustrations until well into the 1960s.&nbsp; The costs of color printing were high enough that it was cheaper to generate color images separately from monochrome text.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that some books, even with B&amp;W illustrations, were published with the text as one volume and the prints as an accompanying portfolio.&nbsp; I think that the size of the prints was the consideration there, and effectively matching them to their place in the text.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you wanted color pictures of art, you either got a book with tipped in plates, or you got a volume of text and a portfolio of prints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these were produced effectively like magazines.&nbsp; I have a couple of copies of a series called &quot;The Masters&quot;.&nbsp; You could buy the series in bookstores or at newsstands, or you could subscribe to it.&nbsp; They were issued sequentially like periodicals... dozens upon dozens of monograms on this artist or that with a short text essay followed by a dozen or so large color prints - nice color, state of the art printing for its time.&nbsp; These prints are bound in, but there were other similar series where the prints were unbound.</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re of very little value today because access to the images, and to color printing, is no longer an issue, and the texts are about as important as the articles in Playboy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prints are still very nice.&nbsp; The color is still good and they can have a nice, nostalgic, old-timey look to them, but they have little monetary value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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