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.