lithographer
(lɪˈθɒgrəfə(r))
[f. litho- + -grapher.]
† 1. One who writes treatises about stones. Obs.
| 1685 Phil. Trans. XV. 1056 Though it be commonly by the Lithographers reckon'd amongst stones. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 175 The Sardachates of the Lithographers. |
2. One who practises lithography; a lithographic draughtsman or printer.
| 1828–32 in Webster. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Print. (ed. Ringwalt) 284 The first attempts at transferring, in lithography, were made in Paris, in 1826, by a lithographer named Motte. 1878 Richmond Gram. Lithography 3 Many difficulties which do not now confront the Lithographer. |