The name of Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834–85), inventor of many contrivances connected with photography, used attrib. in designations of processes invented by him, as Woodbury-gravure, -process; esp. Woodburytype [see -TYPE], a process in which a design on a film of gelatine, obtained from a photographic negative, is transferred by heavy pressure to a metal plate from which it may be printed; a print thus produced; also attrib.
1869. Photogr. Jrnl., 16 Jan., 218/2. The Woodbury Type Company.
1872. Woodbury, Patent Specif., 4 Dec., in Ure’s Dict. Arts (ed. 7), III. 565. The ordinary Woodbury printing-press.
1875. trans. Vogel’s Chem. Light, xv. 245. Woodbury printing.
1878. Abney, Treat. Photogr., 174. The Woodbury-type process.
1881. Athenæum, 22 Jan., 134/1. This book … is illustrated by Woodburytype reproductions of contemporary views of the Tower of London, Louvain, and Liége.
1881. Nation (N.Y.), XXXII. 219/2. Among his illustrations is a two-page woodburytype of a Caxton eaten abundantly by book-worms.
1892. Hazell’s Annual, 559/2. It is an improvement upon the well-known Woodbury process, and has been given the name of Woodbury-gravure.
