Lithography & lithographers : some chapters in the history of the art, with technical remarks and suggestions / by Joseph & Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, together with many illustrations.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/3320

Author

Joseph Pennell
Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Imprint

London: Printed by Unwin Brothers at the Gresham Press for T Fisher Unwin and published by him at 11 Paternoster Buildings, 1898

Physical Description

2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xiii, 279 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits frontispiece, 6 plates (including portraits, 1 colour) ; 36 cm.

General Note

Plates, not included in paging, accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

With an "errata" slip bound in at p. [1].

Preface -- List of illustrations -- I. The Cellini of lithography -- II. Senefelder’s discovery -- III. The birth of the art in France -- IV. The great period in France -- V. Early English -- VI. The Renaissance in England and France -- VII. The spread of the art -- VIII. Technical and critical suggestions

Binding Note

Green cloth covers. Top edge gilt. Titled in gilt on spine: `Lythography & Lithographers. J & E R Pennell. R.A.'

Name as Subject

Alois Senefelder

Subject

Lithographers
Lithography - history

Contributors

T. Fisher Unwin (London), publisher
Unwin Brothers, printer
Gresham Press, printer