Research Catalog

Title

Practical guide for the manufacture of paper and boards / by A. Proteaux [sic] ; with additions by L.S. Le Normand ; translated from the French with notes by Horatio Paine ; to which is added a chapter on the manufacture of paper from wood in the United States by Henry T. Brown.

Author

Prouteaux, A.

Publication

Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird, 1866.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lenormand, Louis Sébastien, 1757-
• Paine, Horatio.
• Brown, Henry T.

Description

xi, [17]-292, 24 p., 6 leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Papermaking
• Handmade paper
• Plant fibers
• Papermaking machinery
• Paperboard
• Papermaking machinery in art

Genre/Form

Publishers' catalogues – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – 19th century

Note

• Translation of: Guide pratique de la fabrication du papier et du carton (Paris, 1864).
• Illustrations: 6 prints (61 figs.) : lithograph ; image 15 x 33 cm. or smaller. Copies of plates i-vi in the French ed. Subject: papermaking machinery, paper fibers, plan of a paper mill. After the plates in the French ed.
• Publisher's catalog: 24 p. at end.
• Includes index.

Call Number

Schlosser 633b

LCCN

08036367

OCLC

• 17378003
• NYPG90-B40642

Author

Prouteaux, A.

Title

Practical guide for the manufacture of paper and boards / by A. Proteaux [sic] ; with additions by L.S. Le Normand ; translated from the French with notes by Horatio Paine ; to which is added a chapter on the manufacture of paper from wood in the United States by Henry T. Brown.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird, 1866.

Local Note

Provenance: William Whiting, Oct. 22, 1889 (bookplate and stamp); Howard Wallingford (bookplate).

Local Subject

Paper, Plant fiber.

Paper, Wood-pulp.

Added Author

Lenormand, Louis Sébastien, 1757-

Paine, Horatio.

Brown, Henry T.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 633b