Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2019

Peter Helm on LITHOGRAPHY EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS VANITY BOOK Mount Saint Gothard 1816 DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE 1792





Louis-Philippe Duc d'Orléans
Futur Roi
Demandant l'hospitalité au Padre
de l'Hospice du Mont Saint Gothard
27.08.1793




on 


EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS
A TRAVELOGUE
 VANITY BOOK 
Paris
Charles de Lasteyrie
1816
RRR

 DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
Voyage
 1792/93




Duchess of Devonshire











                                    GEORGIANA CAVENDISH DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE                                                        
see also peter helm G+     18.December 2015        
PRO SAN GOTTARDO / SANKT GOTTHARD 'Im Eis'
MONT SAINT GOTHARD :: MOUNT SAINT GOTHARD

PARIS (1816) more probably 1817+

only 50 copies printed 
by 
charles de lasteyrie du saillant on his lithographic hand-press
lithographic illustrations (plates) by charles de lasteyrie du saillant
text completely handwritten on the lithographic stones 
by 
G. Moulin
(cf. graesse and brunet)
about 8 copies known in public collections.

cf. MICHAEL TWYMAN EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS  , 
ELB 1.196
'VANITY BOOK' 
[not for sale] , 
printed only for private purpose and to be used as presentations to friends.
very detailed description on 8 pages with illustrations 
(p. 166-173)
and discussing for example the problem of the broken lithographic stone of title page shortly after starting the edition 
and following this optical hint to identify the very first prints 
(of total 50)


   polygraphicum rare books
sold a complete copy of this rare and precious work to a worldfamous new york institution
 1999


Literature : Expertise No.2 by Peter Helm


2.

  (1816)
MICHAEL TWYMAN
ELB  
Early Lithographed Books 1.196
chapter 9 books with pictures p.166-173
the first publication to be discussed here
though the publication is undated,
the address of its imprint
'Imprimerie Lithographique de C. de Lasteyrie rue du Bac No.58'
suggests that  it must have been printed between 1817 and 1825

an incomplete copy of the book in
cambridge university library
has a letterpress title-page dated 1816


such evidence , taken along with  
the style of the lithographic work, 
suggests a dating nearer 1817 than 1825 ²

² The British Library  catalogues  and H.W. Lowndes, The bibliographer's manual of English literature
(revised by H.G.Bohn, London, 1864), both give the date of this lithographed edition  as 1802.
Such a date is quite out of the question. 1802 may have stemmed from a transposition of the last two digits of 1820, a date which would accord  with lithographic evidence, or it may have been a straightforward
confusion with an earlier letterpress edition. The Dictionary of National Biography gives the date as 1816.
Both Lowndes and Martin, Bibliographical catalogue , claim that only fifty copies were printed and that they were not for sale.

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