Charles Hart's Lithography, its theory and practice / editor Georgia B. Barnhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918, author.

Contributor:

Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944- editor, writer of preface.

Legacy Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918.

Hart, Charles Henry.

Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834.

Senefelder, Alois.

G. & W. Endicott (Firm).

Lithography--Printing.

Lithography.

Lithographers.

Lithographed books.

Publishers and publishing.

lithographers.

Physical Description:

243 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Lithography, its theory and practice

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : The Legacy Press, 2025.

Summary:

Georgia Barnhill's edited and annotated edition of Charles Hart's unpublished manuscript "Lithography: its theory and practice." Hart's manuscript provides personal accounts of the Endicott firm's business, including observations of the lithographic process and commercial printers and artists who worked during this period and later. Includes images of lithographic prints which were among the pages of Hart's manuscript.

Contents:

Editor's preface: The proof is the print / Georgia B. Barnhill

Charles Hart's preface

Alois Senefelder: the inventor of lithography

The Endicott firm to 1860

Artists working for the Endicott firm

Lithographic printers and publishers

Charles Hart, 1860s and later

Appendices. Appendix A: Original arrangement of sections in the manuscript

Appendix B: Prints, etc., found in the manuscript

Appendix C: Lithographs printed and published by Charles Hart

Appendix D: Miscellaneous.

Notes:

With a half-title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781940965321

1940965322

OCLC:

1539333641