Aloys Senefelder

Aloys Senefelder, who was in so little repute as an author and artist, that printers and engravers refused to publish his works at their own charges, and so set him upon some plan for doing without their aid.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

The inventor, Aloys Senefelder, had been engaged for years endeavoring to find some process for etching copper plates as a substitute for typographic printing plates; and the piece of stone (of a kind now known as Solenhofen lithographic stone), which eventually led him to the discovery of lithography had been used by him as a slab upon which he had been accustomed to grind his printing ink.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

Lithography was invented by Aloys Senefelder in Munich in 1796 and is a flat print.

Army Rumour Service 2009