Chapter 4 PREPARATIONS

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Chapter 4 PREPARATIONSWhen an advertisement appeared in the Newspaper Proprietor announcing that there was— For sale: An old-established zinco-engraver's business with a splendid new plant and a stock of chemicals. Everybody in the printing world said "That's Etherington's." To the uninitiated a photo-engraver's is a place of buzzing saws, and lead shavings, and noisy lathes, and big bright arc lamps. To the initiated a photo-engraver's is a place where works of art are reproduced by photography on zinc plates, and consequently used for printing purposes. To the very knowing people of the printing world, Etherington's was the worst of its kind, producing the least presentable of pictures at a price slightly above the average. Etherington's had been in the market (by order of

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