a. [f. LITHOGRAPHY + -IC. Cf. F. lithographique.]
1. Pertaining to, employed in or produced by lithography; engraved on or printed from stone.
1813. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1894), Ser. II. II. 117. Forty Lithographic impressions from drawings by Thomas Barker.
1816. Singer, Hist. Cards, 158, note. This fac-simile … is curious as being a production of the newly invented Lithographic process.
1819. Trans. Soc. Arts, XXXVII. 131. A Lithographic Press, the invention of Mr. Alois Senefelder.
1827. De Quincey, Murder, Wks. 1862, IV. 30. No better than … a lithographic print by the side of a fine Volpato.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 44/2. The two principal agents used for making designs, writings, &c., on stone, are called lithographic chalk and lithographic ink.
b. Lithographic limestone, slate, stone: a compact yellowish slaty limestone used in lithography. Hence the adj. is applied to rocks resembling this.
1836. Buckland, Geol. & Min., I. (1837), 406. The lithographic limestone of Solenhofen.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, etc., 777. The lithographic stones of the best quality are still procured from the quarry of Solenhofen.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, iv. 79. Smoother than the finest lithographic stone.
1853. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxix. 165. The chain of hills … which is reddish white, and almost of lithographic nature, like the Jura limestone of Pappenheim.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xvii. 322. The lithographic limestones of Germany.
2. Descriptive of stones or rocks. rare.
1820. Da Costa, in Gentl. Mag., XC. I. 222. A Lithographic view of the several Counties in England.
3. Writing on stone. ? allusive nonce-use.
1862. G. Wilson, Relig. Chem., 32. The records…, which geology has written down with her lithographic pen.
