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Mr. Redman next moved to Bath where he started for himself 
in 1813. Probably more than one reason influenced this move. 
Mr. Thomas Barker may well be considered to have had some- 
thing to do with it. Bath, too, was a literary centre, the only 
provincial place where an artistic coterie could be found ; and 
where some good letter press work could be, and was, executed. 
Further the stone required was supposed to have its counterpart 
in the neighbourhood. The stone brought from, and supposed 
to be peculiar to, Germany, as in fact it still is, was thought to 
be “ precisely the same as the White Lias or Layer found in such 
great abundance in the immediate neighbourhood of Bath, being 
the stratum lying under the Blue Lias, used for burning into 
lime, paving the streets, and for coarse walling.” For the 
purpose of lithography no other stone was considered so eligible, 
as it took a very good polish, was compact, fine grained, and. 
absorbed water, and it could be procured of any superficial 
‘dimension required. The “immediate neighbourhood ” here was 
Corston, but this encomium did not hold good as in the end this 
stone was found to be too soft and porous and had to be 
abandoned. As showing how an error may creep into a statement, 
either from want of knowledge or careless inexactness, a writer, 
writing on this subject some years later, in 1829, says, ‘“‘The stone 
used is not unlike Bath stone, the best substitute hitherto 
discovered in England.” So that here the White Lias quickly 
becomes Bath stone ; hardly acknowledged to be the same thing, 
Mr. Redman being in Bath the new art was briskly pushed, 
especially as before amongst amateur draughtsmen. In this year 
was printed at Bath in octavo, the very first pamphlet on the 
subject ever printed. It is entitled :— 
Lithography, or the art of makings drawings on stone for 
the purpose of being multiplied by printing. With two 
drawings. By Henry Bankes. 
This very interesting pamphlet consists of twenty-three pages, 
and is dated September, 1813, It gives full particulars of the 
