Lithographie Dupont of Périgueux Publishes a Hand-Drawn Lithographic Facsimile of a Book Published in 1635

In 1841 the Dupont lithography firm of Périgueux, a town in the Dordogne district of France, issued a hand-drawn lithographic facsimile of a small 8vo volume by Michel Baudier, Histoire de l'incomparable administration de Romieu, grand ministre d'Estat...(Paris, 1635). They printed the book on handmade paper, and without a copy of the original with which to compare it, this facsimile could easily be confused with the original, except for the statement that it is a reproduction printed on p. 82.

The amount of work involved in drawing each page of the 1635 work on lithographic stones so exactly that each page is nearly an exact copy of the original, seems amazing. Whether they could have used some kind of pantograph to assist is unclear. The Dupont firm called their process "lithographie typographique."

Courtesy of Google Books, we can compare a digital copy of the original 1635 edition with the facsimile in my collection.