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Chinese handmade paper

Title: Chinese handmade paper / Floyd Alonzo McClure ; with a preface by Elaine Koretsky.
Author: McClure, Floyd Alonzo, 1897-1970.
Publication: Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1986.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Schlosser 910	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Bird) 90-488	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors

Koretsky, Elaine.

Description

124 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports., 41 mounted samples (some col.); 27 cm.

Subjects

Note

"The principal use of the paper [long tʼo fuk chi] was wrapping for groceries, particularly cakes, candies and tobacco": p. [105].
First publication of the author's thesis (M.S.--Ohio State University, 1928). Added are the paper samples he had collected for eventual inclusion in a published version of the thesis and other illustrative matter from his archives.
Samples comprise paper made from bamboo, paper mulberry, mulberry, edgeworthia, rice straw and waste paper. Included are 5 samples of ceremonial paper, 3 of decorated paper, one of gold leaf paper, one of waterproofed paper, a lottery ticket and a cross-section of the wood from which paper sizing is made.
Laid in is a folded facsim. of p. 11-12 of the South China morning post for Apr. 12, 1932, the original sheet having been part of the newspaper wrappings found on the author's paper samples.
Binding, publisher's, by Gray Parrot, of quarter black morocco and strawberry pink paper boards.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 124.

Indexed In (note)

Heaney, H.J. Bird & Bull

Call Number

*KP (Bird) 90-488

LCCN

87182412

OCLC

NYPG90-B14577

Author

McClure, Floyd Alonzo, 1897-1970.

Title

Chinese handmade paper / Floyd Alonzo McClure ; with a preface by Elaine Koretsky.

Imprint

Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1986.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 124.

Indexed In:

Heaney, H.J. Bird & Bull, A42

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Local Subject

Paper, Mulberry -- Specimens.

Paper, Bamboo -- Specimens.

Paper, Plant fiber -- Specimens.

Paper, Bark -- Specimens.

Paper, Straw -- Specimens.

Decorative paper -- China -- Specimens.

Colored papers -- Specimens.

Ceremonial paper -- China -- Specimens.

Waste paper, Recycled -- Specimens.

Paper, Waterproof -- Specimens.

Added Author

Koretsky, Elaine.

Research Call Number

*KP (Bird) 90-488 Library has: No. 83 of 325 copies printed in black (text) and red (ornaments) on cream-colored paper.

Schlosser 910 Library has: No. 171 of 325 copies printed in black (text) and red (ornaments) on cream-colored paper. Library has: Prospectus ([4] p.) laid in.

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