[f. LITHO- + -GRAPHER.]
† 1. One who writes treatises about stones. Obs.
1685. Phil. Trans., XV. 1056. Though it be commonly by the Lithographers reckon’d amongst stones.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 175. The Sardachates of the Lithographers.
2. One who practises lithography; a lithographic draughtsman or printer.
1828–32. in Webster.
1871. Amer. Encycl. Print. (ed. Ringwalt), 284. The first attempts at transferring, in lithography, were made in Paris, in 1826, by a lithographer named Motte.
1878. Richmond, Gram. Lithography, 3. Many difficulties which do not now confront the Lithographer.
