Title: A COMPLETE | COURSE OF LITHOGRAPHY: | CONTAINING | Clear and Explicit Instructions | IN ALL THE | DIFFERENT BRANCHES AND MANNERS OF THAT ART | ACCOMPANIED BY | ILLUSTRATIVE SPECIMENS OF DRAWINGS. | TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A | HISTORY OF LITHOGRAPHY, | FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME. | By ALOIS SENEFELDER, | INVENTOR OF THE ART OF LITHOGRAPHY AND CHEMICAL PRINTING. | WITH | A PREFACE | By FREDERIC VON SCHLICHTEGROLL, |Director of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich. | TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN, BY A.S. | London: | PRINTED FOR R. ACKERMANN, 101 STRAND. | 1819. ||
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xxviii, [4] [1] 2-342.
Collation: 4to; [a]-d4, B-2U4 2X2, +14 lithographed plates by Ackermann (incl. 1 folding, 1 colour frontispiece and 1 portrait of A. Senefelder); plates opposite to pp. [i], [1], 193, 198, 203, 228, 232 (fold.), 256, 258, 264, 269, 290, 302, and 305.
Binding: By Anne Krawitz (Philadelphia, PA), 27.5 x 21 cm, modern full mottled calf, boards ruled in gilt, flat spine, compartments ruled in gilt, crimson label with gilt lettering to spine, printed on wove paper; round book-plate to front paste-down “TWM, The Whitehead Library”.
Edition: 1st in English.
Ref.: MET: Accession Number: Ref.20; RCT: RCIN 1195886;
Contributors:
Alois Senefelder (German, 1771 – 1834) – author of the original and translator.
Friedrich Schlichtegroll (German, 1765 – 1822) – author of preface.
William Clowes (British, 1779 – 1847) – printer.
Rudolph Ackermann (German-British, 1764 – 1834) – publisher and lithographer.
Samuel Prout (British, 1783 – 1852)
Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria (German, 1756 –1825) – dedicatee.
