COOPER, Thomas.

Lithography ... [article title], The Analectic Magazine

Item #84430

(ANALECTIC MAGAZINE). COOPER, Thomas. Lithography ... [article title], The Analectic Magazine, no. 79. Volume XIV. July, 1819. Philadelphia: M. Thomas [and others], July 1819. 1st ed. 8vo. viii, 80, [2]pp. Two plates, including a lithograph by Bass Otis. Partially unopened and untrimmed. Stitched. With facsimiles of the original wrappers laid in. Very good. Lithography, invented in Germany in 1796, had been primarily used for music scores and maps in European printing, but renewed interest in the process in Paris had reached America by 1819. "In May 1819 Philadelphia portrait painter Bass Otis (1784-1861) and scientist Dr. Samuel Brown (1769-1830) signed out a lithographic stone from the collections of the American Philosophical Society for the experimentation of the `art of lithographic engraving'" - Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia On Stone digital exhibit. Cooper (1759-1839), the author of the article accompanying the print here, was another Philadelphia scientist, and was particularly enthused by lithography's possibilities for scientific illustration, predicting an end to the "prodigious expense" of other methods, like copperplate printing.

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