Early Lithographed Books, A Study of the Design and Production of Improper Books in the Age of the Hand Press

TWYMAN, Michael

Published by Farrand Press, London, 1990

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First Edition. quarto, brown cloth. 371 pp. Farrand Press, . "When Aloys Senefelder invented lithography in 1796, he made it possible to produce books without the use of a hand-press. It revolutionized publishing, making it possible to reproduce cheaply and efficiently short- hand symbols, calligraphy, facsimiles, military maps, music, accounting tables, etc. This remarkable book by Michael Twyman is the first to give a comprehensive history of early books produced by the application of Senefelder's method. It is the result of twenty years of scholarship that continued after the publication of his book, Lithography, 1800-1850 by the Oxford University Press in 1970. In addition to the extensive text, the book features a bibliographic catalogue of over 420 lithographed books from the period. Each entry has full pagination, the book's publication price (when available), and other useful annotations. It is the first such catalogue of early lithographed books available and will be extremely useful to collectors, booksellers, librarians, and scholars interested in the field. Twyman's text includes chapters on Lithographic Incunables; Military Manuals; The Presses at Chatham and Metz; The Lithographic Publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps; Books on Accounting and other ' Difficult Composition'; Music Method Books; Non-Latin Scripts; Lithography and Phonography; The Books of Isaac Pitman; Books with Pictures; Facsimiles of Autographs; and Photolithographed Facsimiles and Reprints. There are also bibliographies and an index. A very fine, clean copy.

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Early Lithographed Books, A Study of the Design and Production of Improper Books in the Age of the Hand Press

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Farrand Press, London

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1990

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quarto, brown cloth

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First Edition.

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