Excerpt from Practical Text Book of Lithography: A Modern Treatise on the Art of Printing From Stone

The object of the following treatise is to furnish both the amateur and professional with a comprehensive text book which can be understood by the workers in lithography whether they have enjoyed a college education or not. There are several lithographic text books on the market, but most of them are so technical that the layman cannot understand them, and even the technical worker has, at times, to consult a dictionary in order to be able to grasp the meaning of the author. The writer has undertaken in the following pages to use only plain, understandable English. Wherever possible, where technical phrases have been called for, there have been substituted equivalent phrases of the plainest English. In this way has the Practical Text Book of Lithography been made as lucid as it is possible to make a work of this kind.

In offering this book to the lithographic workers the writer believes that he is benefiting the art. He makes no pretense of originality, because the process was discovered and perfected before he was born, but there has always been a demand for a concise, clear and practical text book to which the worker could turn when a question arose as to the best mode of procedure. We believe that this book will meet that demand.

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