Meaning & use
Autography
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The act or process of writing something in one's own handwriting; also, a printing process that reproduces an original drawing or manuscript exactly as handwritten.
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The archive contains a rare piece of autography from the composer himself.
Lithographic autography allowed the artist's original pen strokes to be reproduced directly onto the printing stone.
A note on using this word
Combines the Greek roots 'autos' (self) and 'graphein' (to write); a specialized 19th-century printing process of the same name let artists transfer their own handwriting or drawing straight onto a lithographic stone.
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