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Fig. 344, representing the wrong side, was printed in a manilla color and embossed from an electrotype taken from the other side of the tin mentioned above.

Plate 61.—The figure upon this plate was first printed in orange and two of its dark tones blended together; then the type matter and borders at the sides were printed in its darkest tone. This combination belongs to the harmony of scale.

Plate 62.—This is a most interesting plate, showing a great variety of handsome colors produced by printing the colors red, bine, yellow, gray, and black, in lines and solids over gold bronze printed in lines and solids. The reader will probably find on this plate many effects in printing which he has not seen before. We will not explain each one separately, as the matter printed below each figure makes this unnecessary; we will, however, show the cuts which were used to produce the figures printed in four colors. For example, the fourth figure to the right of black, showing black on blue on red on gold, was printed with the cuts below, in the order named:

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gold.
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red.
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blue.
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black.

The cuts were specially engraved to show the colors in solids, half-tone lines, and tint lines. The different colors were produced

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