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The art of papermaking

Title: The art of papermaking / by Joseph de Lalande, 1761 ; translated into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson.
Author: Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807.
Publication: Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Ireland : Ashling Press, 1976.

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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	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Irish 1976 06-411	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	Permit needed	Schlosser 446	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+ (Ashling) 76-449	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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118 p., xiv leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill.; 38 cm.

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Note

"Limited to four hundred and five numbered copies; each volume is signed by Paul Kavanaugh, printer, and by Ian O'Casey, paper-maker and publisher. The text has been set in twelve point Baskerville, two and a half point leaded. The entire edition was printed by Paul Kavanaugh at his print shop in Donore Avenue, Dublin. The body of the work is printed on all rag mould-made paper from Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset, England. The decorative handmade papers for the illustrations and endpapers were felted by Ian O'Casey of Ashling Handmade Papers, Shannon, Ireland. Three hundred and fifty-five copies have been bound in half leather by hand; fifty copies only have been bound by hand in full leather"--Colophon. Copies with this colophon are printed on light blue-gray paper (ill. on blue paper); text paper watermarked: "W S H & Co. British hand made."
Some copies have a variant colophon, which reads: "Limited to four hundred and five numbered copies; each volume is signed by Ian O'Casey, paper-maker and publisher. The text has been set in twelve point Baskerville, two and a half point leaded. The body of the work is printed on all rag mould-made paper. The decorative handmade papers for the illustrations and endpapers were felted by Ian O'Casey of Ashling Handmade Papers, Shannon, Ireland. Three hundred and fifty-five copies have been bound in half leather by hand; fifty copies only have been bound by hand in full leather." These copies are printed on unwatermarked white paper (ill. on blue paper).
Translation of: Art de faire le papier (Paris, 1761)
Original French ed. published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, as part of its series Description des arts et metiers, 1761-1789.
The 14 ill. are reproductions of the engravings in the original ed. Six were drawn and engraved for this work by Pierre Patte (3 dated 1761); 8 (dated 1698) originally drawn and engraved by Louis Simonneau for an unpublished treatise on papermaking by Desbillettes, and reworked by Patte. No. iii (on folded leaf): "Plans & elévation de la Manufacture de Langlée, près Montargis." No. vii copied from a plate in Johannis van Zyl's Theatrum machinarum universale (Amsterdam, 1734).
Includes French-English glossary and index.

Binding (note)

Binding: Natural goatskin, each board with a large recessed panel containing onlays of various shades of green, yellow, brown and fawn goatskin, depicting flax and cotton plants; title "Papermaking" on spine in green goatskin onlays; doublures of dark brown leather. By Susan Spring Wilson (with her monogram blind-stamped on back doublure). In natural cloth solander case with paper spine label, lined in padded brown suede. "Commissioned for the collection of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner"--Book label on back flyleaf.

Call Number

*KP+ (Ashling) 76-449

OCLC

NYPG774759862-B

Author

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807.

Title

The art of papermaking / by Joseph de Lalande, 1761 ; translated into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson.

Imprint

Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Ireland : Ashling Press, 1976.

Local Note

Copy in *KP+ is no. 183, one of 355 copies bound in half leather; signed by Paul Kavanaugh and Ian V. O'Casey.

Schlosser Coll. copy is no. 122, one of 50 copies bound in full leather; signed by Paul Kavanaugh and Ian V. O'Casey.

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 19, with variant colophon; signed by Ian V. Casey.

Binding

Spencer Coll. copy: Binding: Natural goatskin, each board with a large recessed panel containing onlays of various shades of green, yellow, brown and fawn goatskin, depicting flax and cotton plants; title "Papermaking" on spine in green goatskin onlays; doublures of dark brown leather. By Susan Spring Wilson (with her monogram blind-stamped on back doublure). In natural cloth solander case with paper spine label, lined in padded brown suede. "Commissioned for the collection of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner"--Book label on back flyleaf.

Local Note

Gift of Maggy Magerstadt Rosner; with her book label.

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Added Author

Atkinson, Richard MacIntyre.

Simonneau, Louis, 1654-1727. Illustrator

Patte, Pierre, 1723-1814. Illustrator

O'Casey, Ian V. Publisher

Kavanaugh, Paul. Printer

Ashling Press. Publisher

Ashling Handmade Papers. Papermaker

Wookey Hole Mill. Papermaker

W.S. Hodgkinson Mill. Papermaker

Wilson, Susan Spring. Binder

Rosner, Maggy Magerstadt, 1923-2011, donor.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Ashling) 76-449

Schlosser 446

Spencer Coll. Irish 1976 06-411

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