Der polygraphische Apparat, oder, Die verschiedenen Kunstfächer der K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei zu Wien
By: von Alois Auer
Publisher: Aus der Kaiserlich-königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Prints; Printing; K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Austria)
Other titles: Verschiedenen Kunstfächer der K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei zu Wien
Notes: "I. und II. Vortrag : Die Erklärung und praktische Anwendung des polygraphischen Apparates."

Text illustrated with 30 specimen plates of the various 19th century commercial and experimental printing processes, including wood and steel engraving, etching, photography, lithography, nature printing (including examples showing nature-printing of minerals, here identified as "Mineralographie" and "Mineralotypie"), chemitype (zinc relief etching), hyalographie, anaglyptography (medal engraving), guilloche, electrotyping techniques (including "Galvanographie" and "Stilographie"), and typography (including printed and blind impressions).