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Specimens.

Title: Specimens.
Author: Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation.
Publication: [New York : Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation, 1953]

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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 676	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	*KF+ 1953 (Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation. Specimens)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

107 [i.e. 220] p. : all samples, ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Alternative Title

Specimens : a Stevens-Nelson paper catalogue.
Stevens-Nelson paper catalogue.

Subject

Genre/Form

Watermarks (Paper) – 20th century.
Watermarks (Paper) – Light and shade.

Note

Half title: Specimens : a Stevens-Nelson paper catalogue.
"This catalogue, which has been produced jointly by Stevens-Nelson and the mills represented, is an extension of the series of broadsides issued from 1901 to 1949 by Japan Paper Company and the Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation"--P. [8].
"This catalogue owes its existence to the liberal collaboration of more than 150 designers, printers, paper-makers and other participants, in ten countries"--P. [217].
Consists of 107 samples (97 one-leaf, 3 two-leaf and 7 double-leaf) of handmade and mould made paper produced by various Japanese and Western mills in white and various colors.
Each sample is printed in black and various colors with specimen text, ill., letterhead or the like, with data on designer, printer, etc., and paper specifications on verso; some interleaved.
Additional samples used as endpapers, flyleaves (with special watermarks), frontispiece (light and shade watermark) and interleavings not counted in collation, above.
The principal paper manufacturers are: Papeteries d'Arches, Arnold & Foster, Papeteries Delacroix, Robert Fletcher & Son, J. Barcham Green, Ltd., Papeteries Johannot, Moulins à papier du Val de Laga, Papeteries du Marais et de Sainte Marie, Cartiere Miliani-Fabriano, Arthur Millbourn & Co., Portals, Ltd., Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne and Papeteries de Rives; cf. p. [217].
"Price list and supplemental index and errata to accompany the Stevens-Nelson catalogue Specimens, July, 1953" (7, [1] p.) laid in.
Binding, publisher's, by Russell-Rutter Co., N.Y., of quarter navy blue oasis goat and marbled paper boards. Issued in slipcase.

Call Number

Schlosser 676

LCCN

55025484

OCLC

3399942
NYPG89-B81314

Author

Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation.

Title

Specimens.

Imprint

[New York : Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation, 1953]

Local Note

Each copy includes a special presentation leaf. Schlosser Coll. copy reads: "Presented to Gerard Proost with the compliments of Samuel A. Nelson, Jr."

Provenance: U[lco] P[roost] (bookplate).

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Local Subject

Paper -- Specimens.

Graphic processes paper -- Sample books.

Graphic processes paper -- Specimens.

Colored papers -- Specimens.

Colored papers -- Sample books.

Japanese paper -- Specimens.

Marbled papers -- Specimens.

Added Title

Specimens : a Stevens-Nelson paper catalogue.

Stevens-Nelson paper catalogue.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 676

*KF+ 1953 (Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation. Specimens)

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