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Nicolas Louis Robert and his endless wire papermaking machine : with facsimiles of the inventor's original drawings of the first paper machine : including a chapter on the papermaking historian Leonard B. Schlosser

Title
Nicolas Louis Robert and his endless wire papermaking machine : with facsimiles of the inventor's original drawings of the first paper machine : including a chapter on the papermaking historian Leonard B. Schlosser / Henry Morris.
Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
Publication
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Bixler, Michael.
  • Bixler, Winifred.
  • Bird & Bull Press. pbl prt
  • Campbell-Logan Bindery. bnd
Description
1 case (1 v., 1 portfolio, 1 folded broadside) : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), port.; 46 cm.
Alternative Title
Nicolas Louis Robert
Subjects
Genre/Form
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamond.
Note
  • "150 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press in October, 1999. The book was composed in Garamond types by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery"--Colophon of vol. (p. [45]).
  • Title page information transcribed from t.p. of the vol.
  • Volume: 41, [4] p. : ill. (some col.), col. port., facsim. ; 29 cm. Four of the ill. are mounted. "Leonard: historian, scholar, collaborator and friend": p. 31-41.
  • Portfolio: "Facsimiles of the original drawings." 5 sheets ; 43 x 31 cm. Contains 5 color facsims., made by scanning and color xerography, of Robert's original drawings of his machine, with explanatory letterpress on verso. The original drawings are now in the Schlosser Collection on the History of Papermaking, The New York Public Library.
  • Broadside: "A facsimile of one of the full sheets of assignats as it came from the printing press." 1 sheet ; 38 x 51 cm., folded to 19 x 26 cm. With explanatory letterpress on verso.
  • Binding of vol.: Publisher's blue cloth, with paper label printed in red and black. Portfolio: Gray paper boards with gray linen spine, with paper label printed in red and black. Issued in red cloth clamshell case, with recessed compartment for the vol. and broadside; red leather spine label, gilt, with title: Nicolas Louis Robert.
Call Number
*KP+++ (Bird) 03-329
OCLC
NYPG03-B4390
Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
Title
Nicolas Louis Robert and his endless wire papermaking machine : with facsimiles of the inventor's original drawings of the first paper machine : including a chapter on the papermaking historian Leonard B. Schlosser / Henry Morris.
Imprint
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 2000.
Local Note
NYPL copy is no. 36.
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Added Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019. Printer
Bixler, Michael. Compositor
Bixler, Winifred. Compositor
Bird & Bull Press. Publisher. Printer
Campbell-Logan Bindery. Binder
Research Call Number
*KP+++ (Bird) 03-329
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