$2,016
Estimate: $600 - $900
Auction: May 20, 2021 1:00:00 PM EDT
London: R. Ackermann, 1819. First English edition. 4to. xxviii, (iv), 342 pp. Translated from the German by A.S. Preface by Frederic von Schlichtegroll. Illustrated with color lithographic frontispiece and 13 black and white lithographic plates (one folding). Full antique mottled brown calf, stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label; all edges trimmed; scattered foxing and soiling to prelims, texts, and plates; scattered marginalia in pencil and ink; many plates trimmed at fore-edge.
First English edition of Alois Senefelder's groundbreaking work on lithography, Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey...