[f. prec. sb.]
1. a. To write with one’s own hand. b. To copy or reproduce by autography. Hence Autographed ppl. a.
1818. Gentl. Mag., LXXXVIII. I. 160/2. The sixth plate is written music, or, as the Lithographers denote it, autographed music.
1882. Athenæum, 18 March, 341/2. Both [books] were autographed and intended for practical purposes only.
2. To write one’s autograph on or in; to sign.
1837. Blackw. Mag., XLI. 281. Don Carlos might long ere now have autographed his decrees, Yo el Rey, from the Escurial.
1883. Graphic, 3 Nov., 452. He autographs the Admiral’s book.
