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Lot 114
Sale 6004 - Books and Manuscripts
May 20, 2021
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[Printing] Senefelder, Alois A Complete Course of Lithography: Containing Clear and Explicit Instructions in all the Different Branches and Manners of That Art
London: R. Ackermann, 1819. First English edition. 4to. xxviii, (iv), 342 pp. Translated from the German by A.S. Preface by Frederic von Schlichtegroll. Illustrated with color lithographic frontispiece and 13 black and white lithographic plates (one folding). Full antique mottled brown calf, stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label; all edges trimmed; scattered foxing and soiling to prelims, texts, and plates; scattered marginalia in pencil and ink; many plates trimmed at fore-edge.
First English edition of Alois Senefelder's groundbreaking work on lithography, Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey...