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Papermaking through eighteen centuries
- Title
- Papermaking through eighteen centuries / by Dard Hunter.
- Author
- Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966.
- Publication
- New York : William Edwin Rudge, 1930.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | 0211.487.3 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- William Edwin Rudge (Firm)
- Description
- xvii, 358 p. incl. illus., plates, facsims. fold. front., double pl.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Dummies.
- Note
- The present book deals with the same phase of papermaking as does Old papermaking, but in a more comprehensive manner than the older work. cf. Pref.
- Contents
- The early writers on papermaking from Ulman Stromer to Matthias Koops -- The appliances and methods of oriental and occidental papermakers during the development of the craft -- Developments in the maceration of papermaking materials: from the ancient Chinese methods to the invention of the Hollander -- The invention and evolution of the papermaking mould, the principal tool of the ancient makers of paper -- The eccentricities of the old papermakers and the characteristics of the paper they fabricated -- An account of the first English forgeries and the efforts of Sir William Congreve to prevent counterfeiting -- The use and significance of the ancient watermarks in European book and manuscript papers.
- LCCN
- 30014991
- OCLC
- ocm01466921
- 1466921
- SCSB-268378
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library