[f. AUTOGRAPH; cf. Gr. -γραφία writing.]
1. The action of writing with one’s own hand; the author’s own handwriting.
1644. Bulwer, Chirol., 82. By the old autography of the Hand.
1723. S. Mather, Vind. Bible. The date of the autography.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xlvii. Every expert would here detect the autography of the Son of Jesse.
2. Reproduction of the form or outline of anything, by an impression from the thing itself; ‘nature printing’; esp. a process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
1864. in Webster.
† 3. = AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Obs.
1661. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., A viij b. Nor doth the last Scene yield us any more satisfaction in our autography, for we are as ignorant how the Soul leaves the light, as how it first came into it.
4. Autographs collectively.
1788. Thane (title), British Autography, a Collection of Fac-Similes of the Handwritings of … Illustrious Persons.
