12 SEPTEMBER 1946, Page 14

FABER GALLERY REPRODUCTIONS

SIR,—Mr. M. H. Middleton in his critical though not unfriendly review of the second four books in the Faber Gallery asks: " What does one say about such picture books?" One answer is that one does not say (as Mr. Middleton says in the next sentence) that the plates are collotype when in fact they are printed by letterpress from four-colour half-tone blocks, because if one says it one result is that one gets one in the eye

General Editor, Faber Gallery.