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Nicolas Louis Robert and his endless wire papermaking machine : with facsimiles of the inventor's original drawings of the first paper machine : including a chapter on the papermaking historian Leonard B. Schlosser / Henry Morris.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Portfolio TS1098.R63 M67 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robert, Nicolas Louis, 1761-1828.
- Robert, Nicolas Louis.
- Schlosser, Leonard B.
- Papermakers--France--Biography.
- Papermakers.
- Papermaking machinery--History.
- Papermaking machinery.
- Papermaking--History.
- Papermaking.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 41 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 29 cm + portfolio (5 leaves : color illustrations ; 43 x 31 cm) + 1 facsimile (1 folded leaf : 38 x 51 cm (folded to 19 x 26 cm)) + 1 prospectus (4 pages on 1 folded sheet ; 28 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Volume : Nicolas Louis Robert and his endless wire papermaking machine
- Leonard, historian, scholar, collaborator and friend.
- Portfolio : Facsimiles of the original drawings.
- Broadside : A facsimile of one of the full sheets of assignats as it came from the printing press.
- Notes:
- "150 copies [letterpress] printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press in October, 1999. The book was composed in Garamond types by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery"--Colophon.
- Includes 4 mounted ill. One facsim. of one of the full sheets of assignats, as it came from the printing press. 5 color facsims. of the original drawings of Robert's machine.
- Bound in blue cloth boards; printed paper label mounted on front. Portfolio of grey paper-covered boards backed in grey cloth; printed paper label on front. In red cloth-covered clamshell box (45 x 32 x 4 cm.) with red leather label stamped in gold.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.
- Contains:
- Leonard : historian, scholar, collaborator and friend.
- OCLC:
- 43583836
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