Lawson & Jones Lithograph Stone
Date1910-1919
DimensionsOverall: 7.6 x 25.6 x 35.7 cm
Credit LineTransfer from the London and Middlesex Historical Society, 1958
Object number1958.001.353
Label TextThis lithography stone features designs and artwork for some of the many mastheads, receipts, and invoices Lawson & Jones produced. The stones were used in offset printing. First, workers inked the stone. From there, they transferred or offset the images onto a rubber mat and then onto paper. Offset printing is still a popular form of mass-production printing but uses metal plates instead of lithography stones. Frank Lawson (1861-1911), a reporter with the "London Advertiser," and Henry J. Jones (1864-1952), a compositor with the same paper, established Lawson & Jones in 1882. It survived until 2011.
NameStone, Lithograph
