hand-tinted

Updated: May 15, 2025

But then it was the appointed tongue of lovers, and while their sickness is upon them they have neither humour nor wit. This Mr. Thomas Miller wrote abundant flowers of language in his book, and the plates were coloured by hand. By the bye, what a blessed thing colour-printing is! These hand-tinted plates, to an imaginative person, are about as distressing as any plates can very well be.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Certain Personal Matters