[MAIRET (François Ambroise)]. A note on lithography, or the - Lot 368

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[MAIRET (François Ambroise)]. A note on lithography, or the - Lot 368
[MAIRET (François Ambroise)]. A note on lithography, or the art of printing on stone. Dijon, Mairet, 1818. In-12 of VI-57 pp. Havana half-basane, smooth spine, p. de titre (rel. legt postérieure). Original edition decorated with 5 out-of-text lithographs by Mairet. Very good copy of this very rare work, very sought-after, illustrated with 5 incunabula lithographs. (Rubbed jaws.) Ex-libris Isabelle Pilinska. Lithographer and bookbinder, Mairet settled in 1816 in Dijon where he worked until 1821 and left Burgundy in 1830 to take over a paper mill in Morlaix where he died in 1873. Invented in 1796 in Munich by the German actor Aloys Senefelder under the name of chemical printing, lithography was named as such by Mitterer, a drawing teacher in Munich and introduced in Paris in 1800 by the Frenchman Frédéric André, a music publisher. It was not until 1816 that Engelmann dedicated the first work written in French to it. Mairet's notice would therefore be the second publication ever devoted to this new printing process.
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