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@he Entotppe Company Have the pleasure to a nnounce that they have added the WOODBURYTYPE to their extensive department for Photo-Mechanical Printing. There are a few (and but few) kinds of subjects that can be better executed by the Woodbury Process than by the Collotype. Even these for Book Illustrations are not much in favour with Publishers of High-class Art Works, bv reason of the mounting required. Where the Illustration is simply a portrait at the commencement of a volume, the unpleasant pucker and want of flatness caused by the contraction of the gelatine can be condoned, if the result as a photograph is superior. For portraits where mounting is not objectionable, also for illustrations of ART MANUFACTURES, Cards for STEAM-SHIP COMPANIES, cheap photographs for Illustrated Journals—such as the “FIGARO,” "SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS”—and also for better work where the negatives can be take specially, the Woodbury Process is admirably adapted. The Woodbury Process forms an addendum to the far more important COLLOTYPE PROCESS, and will enable the Company to execute orders by the process which besti suits each particular class of work. THE COLLOTYPE PROCESS, as improved by Sawyer, is worked by the Autotype Company upon an extensive scale. A number of ALBION PRESSES, supplemented by sundry lithographic presses for Titles, Borders, &c., turn out daily large quantities of high-class work. A mere glance at the subjects now on the presses, or but just executed, will show that the range of Collotype Printing is as nearly as possible UNIVERSAL. Views from Nature ; Facsimiles of Drawings ; the most exquisite reproductions of Greek, Itoman, and other Coins; Ancient MSS.; Sculpture, Architecture, and, in short, almost every subject capable of being photographed finds its adequate representation in SAWYER’S COLLOTYPE. Amongst the work on hand may be noted the "Codex Alexandrinus," Vol. I., 556 plates; also a Second Edition of Vol. IV. of the same work. 287 plates. A Second Edition of “Les Travaux Publics de France,” 250 plates— these are photographs of the most celebrated Engineering Works in France, and published under the auspices of the Trench Government. This work, executed by the Autotype Company, gained for the Publisher, Monsieur ROTHSCMILD, the Gold Medal at the French Exhibition of 1878. The "Keramic Art of Japan,” by Audsley and Bowes, a splendid edition de luxe. “Relics of Ancient Liverpool,” 72 plates. “The Prout and Hunt Drawings,” by Mr. Ruskin, 20 plates, published by the Fine Art Society; these proofs elicited the high approval of the Author of the work. To refer to the past would be simply to multiply examples of the most splendid books illustrated by SAWYER’S COLLO TYPE PROCESS. It is sufficient to say that the process has been adopted by the Trustees of the British Museum, the Royal Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Palcngraphical Society, and almost every learned body in London, as well as by the leading Pub lishers in London and Edinburgh, and the two great Fine-Art Publishers in Paris, Messrs. Rothschild and Firnim Didot et Cie. The following PRICE LISTS are ready: Enlargements—Carbon Printing—Artistic Finishing—Tissue and Transfer Paper- Sawyer’s Collotype—The Woodbury Process—Keramic Photography (on Tiles, Plagues, and Enamels')—,Autotype Dry Plates. Free by Post to any address, ivith Professional Card. THF AUTOTYPE COMPANY, 531, OXFORD ST., LONDON, W.C.