Photo-Lithography

GEORG FRITZ
Vice-director of the Court and Imperial State Printing Works at Vienna
TRANSLATED BY
E. J. WALL
( Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society )
Author of “The Dictionary of Photography,” “Carbon Printing,” etc.
1895
LONDON
DAWBARN AND WARD, LIMITED
6, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C.
P HOTO-LITHOGRAPHY, with its many branches and its extended application, when used direct and also as handmaid for the lithographer and printer from stone, is, with the exception of phototypy and autotypy, indeed that process for the preparation of letterpress plates which has done the most towards making photography useful for the graphic arts, in the artistic sense as well as from the practical point of view. And in the near future it will be a great acquisition when it is once generally recognized that colour plates can be prepared by photographic means without any considerable amount of manual or artistic help. It is the more to be wondered at that photo-lithography has not yet found that extension and general use which it in so high a degree deserves.
I have written this book, impressed with the urgency of stimulating the propagation of this useful process. In writing I have been careful to avoid all those details which are for the practical worker of minor interest—the description of the historical evolution, etc., so instructive as these must certainly be—so that I have abstained from many complicated and unintelligible formulæ. I leave this willingly to a more ready writer. Starting rather from the standpoint of speaking as a practical worker to practical men, I have recorded all the experience which I have gained in the course of many years.