Corpora: rotagraph

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Pieter de Haan wrote:

> One of my literary colleagues has recently come across the term "rotagraph"
> in an early 20th century letter. The term was used by an author who writes
> that he has received a rotagraph of the first 50 pages of his intended book
> from Oxford University Press. Apparently te term refers to a technique or
> procedure which was new at the time. The term does not occur in the OED.
> 
> Does anybody know the term?

According to the beta version of the new online version of the OED:

rotograph:

A photographic print (esp. of a page in a book or manuscript) made by
exposing the object through a lens and prism, so that its reversed image
is thrown upon part of a roll of sensitive paper. Also attrib.
 
1898 in Trade Marks Jrnl. No. 1098 (1899) 408. 1903 H. S. Ward's Fig.
Photogr. (ed. 3) 95 'Rotograph' Papers. Ibid. 183 'Rotograph' formulæ.
1906 Oxford Univ. Press Circular (24 Nov.), Rotary Bromide Prints, or
Rotographs.

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