Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Raucourt, colonel (Antoine), 1799-1841
Title:
A manual of lithography, or, Memoir of the lithographical experiments made in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges : clearly explaining the whole art, as well as all the accidents that may happen in printing and the different methods of avoiding them / translated from the French by C. Hullmandel.
Alternate Title(s):
Manual of lithography
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Rodwell and Martin, New Bond Street, 1820.
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 138, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE2420 .R3813 1820 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE2420 .R3813 1820 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
By Antoine Raucourt.

Translation of: Mémoire sur les expériences lithographiques.

Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.

Illustrations printed on double leaves.

"The text is a translation from the French of Raucourt. An important book, being the first authorative account in English of the process of lithography"--Abbey.

NSTC, 2H36226

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 231

BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in original blue paper covered boards. Bookplate: Rev. H. Feilden. Bookseller's label: Frank Murray. Bookseller. Moray House. Derby. Copy 2 is also bound in original paper covers. Printed paper label on spine: Manual of lithography. Inscribed: William Eaton, Leighton Buzzard.
Subject Terms:
Lithography -- Study and teaching. | Lithography -- Technique. | Rodwell and Martin -- Publisher. | Davison, Thomas -- Printer. | Feilden, H. Rev. -- Bookplate. (BACRB Copy 1) | Murray, Frank -- Bookseller. (BACRB Copy 1) | Eaton, William -- Autograph. (BACRB Copy 2) | Lithography -- Specimens -- 1820.
Contributors:
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789–1850, tr.