Title
Lithographed facsimile of a letter from the Philomuse Society of Athens, 14 August 1819.
Subject
Box of Korn’s Lithographic Crayons, No. 3. New York: Wm. Korn, Inc., ca. 1950.
Description
This Greek document is a lithographed facsimile of an original letter signed by the president and four members of the Philomuse Society of Athens in 1819. Lithography was discovered by Aloysius Senefelder in 1798. As Senefelder learned, texts could be readily replicated via the process. After writing onto transfer paper with a pen and specially formulated greasy ink, the paper could then be applied facedown onto the stone, and the resultant wrong-reading text could be inked and printed, creating a right-reading document.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School