The Art of Chromolithography.

1883. AUDSELY, George Ashdown. The Art of Chromolithography popularly explained. [6], 24 pp. With 44 full-page chromolithographs. Folio, 418 x 290 mm, bound in original green cloth, embossed and gilt. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. First Edition of this extraordinary monograph on Chromolithography which depicts, in a series of 44 plates, separate impressions of all the lithograph stones employed, and all progressive printings of the same image in combination-from the first colour to the finished picture. "The Audsleys were Liverpool architects who followed [Owen] Jones in developing a taste for the internal polychromatic decoration of public and private buildings, and turned their decorative instincts to account in connection with the production of finely illustrated books... The Art of Chromolithography was described as a 'popular' account of the art of printing pictures by the chromolithographic process, though one can scarcely imagine such an expensive work becoming popular in the ordinary sense of the term" (Burch). The half title and title pages have been remargined, some minor chipping to the edges of a few other pages. Binding slightly rubbed, but nevertheless a very good, complete copy. Inscribed to lithographer Edwin Fulwider on the front flyleaf. Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design p. 134. Burch, Colour Printing and Colour Printers pp. 209-210.