Descrizione

First edition, 8vo, [4], 355, [1], xxxiv, [2]pp., 13 lithographed plates 14 (lacking the trade card plate as usual), cont. boards. This journal was created to examine new materials and processes affecting lithographic production as well addressing economic and technical issues confronting printers. The founding members included an elite group, the preliminary leaf listing such names as: the master-printers Joseph Lemercier, Eugene Kaeppelin and Godefroy Engelmann; the professors of Chemistry and members of the Academie de medicine, Chevallier and Gaulthierde Claubry; and members of the Institut de France, Jomard and the Count de Lasteyrie, amongst others. The 38 page appendix is devoted to a list of the lithographic printers in the Departments, in Paris, and abroad. The first volume of this rare and important Journal relating to lithography, it culminated with the issue of the sixth volume, which was issued in 1848. Not in Ulrich & Kup.