Day: August 9, 2011

Front facade of Houghton Library

Romancing the Stone

[Thanks to Ward Project Music Cataloger Andrea Cawelti for contributing this post.] Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), actor and enthusiastic playwright, became consumed with finding a cheaper method of printing his own plays after discovering the expense of letterpress and engraving processes. He experimented with various kinds of etching on stone, which he later abandoned in favor…