For well over 100 years, BJP Almanacs were definitive and indispensable books. Each year, our most excellent rival, the British Journal of Photography, published a new volume replete with technical information, new products, an epitome of progress, obituaries, chemical formulae and wonderful advertisements. For the student of photographic history, they are equally invaluable. I first encountered them around 50 years ago and today I have quite a few. This is from the Gravure section of the 1937 Almanac (my 1937 and 1932 Almanacs are falling apart, so I checked them first as the easiest to copy from).
Thanks to the Vandyck Printers Ltd of Bristol, reproduction quality was superb, and subject matter widely varied: landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes and much else. In the 1920s and 1930s, though, Keith Dannatt’s…
