A few years ago one of the Paris newspapers was reprinted at Brussels as soon as it arrived by means of lithography.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
The same principle is applicable to the copying of letters: if three or four copies only are required, the pen and the human hand furnish the cheapest means of obtaining them; if hundreds are called for, lithography may be brought to our assistance; but if hundreds of thousands are wanted, the machinery of a printing establishment supplies the most economical method of accomplishing the object.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
This work was executed in lithography, consisting of seven prints; and though, as works of art, they bear no comparison to the wood-drawings of a later time-they are not even so good as the "Fly-Leaves" published at the Punch Office later on-still, comparatively imperfectly as they are rendered, they show the artist's intense sympathy with suffering childhood, as well as enjoyment in the games and "larks" by which the sufferings are for a time at least forgotten.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith