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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22337, 26 February 1938, Page 20

The distinctive feature of Charles Bradley Ford's The Coloured Counties (Batsford. 115 pp. 10/6. Through Angus and Robertson, Ltd.) is its wealth of illustrations reproduced in colour photogravure from Dufaycolor photographs. There are 92 of these, the subjects being drawn from English landscape. An interesting note at the end of the book gives some hints on the use of Dufaycolor material in colour photography, which, Mr Ford says, has recently made "great strides towards achieving perfect results. That is no doubt true. It is not too. much to claim the full achievement of perfection in some' colour photographs. But whether the process of reproduction is at fault, or whether the original photographs are not perfect, it is impossible to say that the plates in this book are wholly pleasing. The colour is often raw and sometimes incredible, its contrasts are sometimes unnaturally abrupt, at other times the colour is vaguely diffused. Nevertheless, many are pretty, some beautiful; and novelty, will count for a good deal. Mr Ford's part of the work a running "survey of the English landscape and its antiquities"—is competently done. ~,„.;-