| | Year | | Event | Keyword |
| | 1798 | | The best kind of limestone is Bavarian. Light colored and perfectly | LITHOGRAPHY |
| | smooth, it is porous and absorbs both water and greasy |
| | substances equally well. The stone used is about six inches thick |
| | and is fairly big, up to 90x65 cm (35x25 inches), and can weigh up |
| | to 150 or 175 pounds. The stone is ground smooth. The drawing is |
| | made on it with a greasy lithographic pencil or crayon, and then |
| | fixed by rinsing the stone with a very weak solution of nitric acid |
| | and gum Arabic. The stone is wiped with water before each |
| | impression is taken and, for each print, it is inked by means of a |
| | leather-covered roller. During this operation, the porous limestone |
| | retains the grease of the crayon where the drawing has been |
| | made, and the parts which are not drawn upon become |
| | impregnated with water. The ink, which is greasy, is repelled by the |
| | water-wet areas and adheres only to the areas marked by the |
| | crayon. See also: Senefelder. |
| | 1798 | | Lithography invented by Senefelder | LITOGRAPHY |
| | 1799 | | Lambinet, Pierre, published his Recherches Historiques sur l'Origine | LAMBINET |
| | de l'Imprimerie at Brussels |
| | 1799 | | The'Rosetta' stone is cut. It contains the same text in Egyptian | ROSETTA STONE |
| | hieroglyphic, Egyptian demotic, and Greek writing. It was discovered |
| | in 1799 near the mouth of the Nile and served to break the code for |
| | deciphering ancient Egyptian works. |
| | 1800 | | Lenox, James, d.1880, American book collector, first to import 42- | LENOX |
| | lines Gutenberg into the USA |
| | 1800 | | Congress. Library of Congress Washington founded | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS |
| | 1804 | | Baxter, George (d. 1867). Patented letterpress process for color | BAXTER |
| | 1804 | | John Gould (1804-1881), British ornithologist and artist. | GOULD |
| | 1804 | | Bewick: History of British Birds Vol II | BEWICK |
| | 1804 | | Baxter, George (d. 1867). Patented letterpress process for color | COLOR PRINTING |
| | 1804 | | Baxter, George, d.1867, inventor if the Baxter Process for color | BAXTER PROCESS |
| | printing (combination of intaglio and relief printing) |
| | 1808 | | Laurenziana. The Laurenziana and Marciana libraries of the Medici's | LAURENZIANA |
| | combined in Florence now forming the Biblioteca Mediceco- |
| | 1809 | | Xavier Marmier (1809-1892), a member of the Académie Française, | MARMIER |
| | bequeathed his books to the public library in Pontarlier. In memory of |
| | the happy moments passed among the book stall keepers on the |
| | quays of the Left Bank he left the, the sum of 1,000 francs.. |
| | 1809 | | Thomas Frognell Dibdin (1776-1847) published 1809: THE | BIBLIOMANIA |
| | BIBLIOMANIA; or, Book-Madness; containing some account of the |
| | History, Symptoms, and Cure of this Fatal Disease. |
| | 1810 | | Brunet's Manuel du Libraire et de l'amateur de livres published. | MANUEL DU LIBRAIRE |
| | 1810 | | Brunet's Manuel du Libraire et de l'amateur de livres published. | BRUNET |
| | 1811 | | Chiswick Press founded. | CHISWICK |
| | 1812 | | Cylinder Press, First built in Britain by Friedrich Konig | CYLINDER PRESS |
| | 1814 | | Graesse, Johann, d.1885, wrote Tresor de Livres rares et precieux | GRAESSE |
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