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Papermaking through eighteen centuries / by Dard Hunter.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TS1090 .H82 1930
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Papermaking--History.
- Papermaking.
- Watermarks.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 358 pages : 214 illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Edwin Rudge, 1930.
- Contents:
- The early writers on papermaking from Ulman Stromer to Matthias Koops
- The appliances and methods of oriental and occidental papermakers during the development of the craft
- Developments in the maceration of papermaking materials: from the ancient Chinese methods to the invention of the Hollander
- The invention and evolution of the papermaking mould, the principal tool of the ancient makers of paper
- The eccentricities of the old papermakers and the characteristics of the paper they fabricated
- An account of the first English forgeries and the efforts of Sir William Congreve to prevent counterfeiting
- The use and significance of the ancient watermarks in European book and manuscript papers.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert S. Price in memory of Emilie K. Price.
- OCLC:
- 1466921
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