I desire that soon it shall be spread over the whole world, bringing much good to humanity through many excellent productions, and that it may work toward man's greater culture, but never be misused for evil purposes. This grant the Almighty! Then may the hour be blessed in which I invented it! SECTION II TEXT-BOOK OF PRINTING FROM THE STONE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION EXPLANATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND THE PECULIARITIES OF STONE-PRINTING AND OF CHEMICAL-PRINTING IN GENERAL PART I General objects and principles governing-- (1) the stone. (2) the ink, crayon, etching surface and color. (3) the acids and other preparing materials. (4) the necessary tools. (5) the paper. (6) the presses. PART II Enumeration and description of the various processes and particular objects in manipulating them, such as:-- RELIEF PROCESS-- to which belong-- (1) Pen and brush designs. (2) Crayon drawing, simple and with several plates. (3) Transfer and Tracing. (4) Woodcut style. (5) Two kinds of Touche drawing, one of which is similar to the Scraped style, while the other is done in the usual way with the brush. (6) Spatter-Work. (7) Touche drawing. (8) Color printing with several plates. (9) Gold and silver print. INTAGLIO PROCESS-- (1) Carved or engraved. (2) Etched. (3) Drawn with prepared ink; with spattered aquatint. (4) Aquatint in copper engraved style, and with etching ground. (5) Aquatint through crayon ground. (6) Intaglio crayon through tracing. (7) Touche drawing with etching color and citric acid. MIXED METHOD: RELIEF AND INTAGLIO UNITED-- (1) Pen drawing combined with engraving. (2) Intaglio drawing with relief tint. (3) Intaglio and relief with several plates. (4) Transformation of relief into intaglio, and vice versa. APPENDIX (1) Printing simultaneously with water colors and oil colors. (2) Simultaneous chemical and mechanical printing. (3) Application of the stone for cotton-printing through wiping--a unique printing method. (4) Color print through wiping. (5) Oil painting print through transfers. (6) Stone-paper. (7) Applying the chemical printing process to metal plates, etc. INTRODUCTION Printing from stone is a branch of a new process, different in fundamental principle from all others, namely, the chemical process. Heretofore there have been two leading printing processes for manifolding writings and drawings, one working with characters in relief, the other with sunken characters. Of the first kind is the ordinary book-printing, in which the characters are made of metal or wood in such form that only those lines and points are elevated that are to take color, everything else being depressed. The wooden forms for cotton-printing are made thus also.