LITHOGRAPHY. HULLMANDEL (Charles Joseph). The Art of Drawing on Stone; Giving a Full Explanation of the Various Styles, of the Different Methods to be Employed to Ensure Success, the Modes of Correcting, as well as of the Several Causes of Failure.1824

London: Published by C. Hullmandel and R. Ackermann, First Edition, 4to (278 x 185 mm), [2], xvi, vii, [1], 92 + advert leaf, lithographed title with vignette,19 lithographed plates (2 tinted, 2 mounted), orig. lithographed boards, rubbed, light stain to upper outer corner of both boards, corners bumped, paper spine chipped, uncut, overall a very good copy. Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789–1850) was born in London, where he maintained a lithographic establishment on Great Marlborough from about 1819. As a young man, Charles Hullmandel studied art and spent several years living and working in continental Europe. He learned printmaking and printed many of his own works. He set up his printing press in London after a visit to Munich with Rudolph Ackermann, and went on to study chemistry under Michael Faraday for the purpose of improving his printing. During the first half of the 19th century Hullmandel became one of the most important figures in the development of British lithography, and his name appears on the imprints of thousands of lithographic prints. "Describes chalk drawing in particular, with advice on the dabbing style and pen-and-ink style. Also covers transfer work, the preparation of the tint stone, correcting drawings on stone and some of the causes of failure. The plates include examples of all styles, a tinted lithograph (with separate printing of the tint stone), a machine engraving transferred to stone, tools and implements, methods of employing them.... The most important lithographic manual published in England in the first half of the nineteenth-century with the most explicit illustrated instructions for the artist working in the tonal style."—Bridson & Wakeman. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 349; Twyman, Lithography, p. 114; Bridson & Wakeman, Printmaking & Picture Printing, D20.