209 - SENEFELDER (Aloys).

SENEFELDER (Aloys). The Art of Lithography, or a Practical Guide Containing a Clear and Concise Description of the Various Procedures to Be Followed for Drawing, Engraving, and Printing on Stone; Preceded by a History of Lithography and Its Various Advances. Paris, Strasbourg, London: Treuttel and Würtz, 1819. — In-4, 275 x 215: portrait (3 ff.), 262 pp. Coated half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition of the French translation of the *Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey* (Munich, 1818), the treatise in which Aloys Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, recounts the history of his discovery and the techniques of his art. It is illustrated with a lithographed portrait of the author on the frontispiece. This copy lacks the atlas of 20 plates, which is not always included. Split hinges, scattered foxing. Included: - SENEFELDER (Aloys). The Art of Lithography, or a Practical Guide Containing a Clear and Concise Description of the Various Procedures to Be Followed for Drawing, Engraving, and Printing on Stone; Preceded by a History of Lithography and Its Various Advances. Munich: published by the author, 1819. — 8vo, 215 x 140: frontispiece, (3 ff.), 230 pp., plain cover. Paperback, untrimmed. An 8vo edition published in the same year as the edition described above. It features a frontispiece depicting a lithographic press, which does not appear in the 4to edition. A copy as published, very well preserved. A few scattered foxing spots.