Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988 : a short history / Richard L. Hills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hills, Richard Leslie, 1936- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury academic collections.

History: Bloomsbury academic collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papermaking--Great Britain--History.

Papermaking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This short history tells the story of five hundred years of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing in Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1 This Paper Thynne, John Tate

2 Paper of High Grade, Papermaking Before 1500

3 The Art of Watermarking

4 A New Industry Emerges, 1500-1800

5 The Whatmans and Wove Paper

6 The Origins of Wallpaper

7 The Development of the Fourdrinier Paper Machine

8 Rival Machines for Making Paper

9 The Nineteenth Century: Demand Outstrips Rag Supplies

10 Esparto and Other Types of Pulp

11 The Paper Machine Matures

12 Watermarks on Papermachines

13 The Twentieth Century

Bibliography

Glossary

Notes Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index.

ISBN:

9781474284943

1474284949

9781474241281

147424128X

OCLC:

1057785621