Notes on some decorated papers in the collection of Mrs Olga Hirsch displayed fro members of the Double Crown Club 23 June 1955
1955 4to (27.5 cm), 8 ff printed recto. Hand made marbled papers wrappers with tipped in printed label. Collection of Mrs. Olga Hirsch, the widow of Paul Hirsch the celebrated music collector, consisted of over 3,500 sheets of paper and 130 books in paper wrappers or with decorated end-papers. In 1968 she bequeathed this collection to the British Library. This special exhibition was divided into the following groups: Covers, Wood block prints, Embossed papers, Marbling, Modern marbled papers, Paste papers, Modern paste papers, Paper wrappers, China and Japan, Moder lithography.
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Paper is part of the Picture: A Fact Illuminated By the Drawings of Walter Dorwin Teague for Strathmore Paper Company
West Springfield Strathmore Paper Company 1922 8vo (24.5 cm), [8] ff, printed wrappers. Specimens of Strathmore Paper Company, wrappers printed on Rhododendron Cover paper, text on Alexandra Japan Cream, Antique.
Soft cover Fine
Paper: Some Notes on its History, Its Making and the Part that the Crane Mills Have Played in Its Production Since 1801
Dalton, MA Crane & Co 0 8vo (24 cm), 14 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
Znaki wodne w księgach Archiwum Miasta Lwowa 1382 - 1600 r.
Lwów Zakł. Graf. Piller - Neumanna 1928 4to (34 cm), 22 pp, 21 plates. In publisher’s folder (folder little frayed at extremities, old stamp on the title, bookplate). In Polish. Watermarks from the Lviv chancery books 1382-1600. Limited to 350 copies, this is no. 65.
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The Principal Antique Patterns of Marbled Papers
[Burford, Oxfordshire] The Cygnet Press 1984 8vo, [44] pp. With fourteen tipped in marbled paper samples, including classic patterns. Paper boards. One of 250 copies printed at Skelton's Press.
Hardcover Fine
Handmade paper and its watermarks: A bibliography
New York Burt Franklin 1967 8vo (22 cm), 22 pp. Publisher's cloth. A reprint of the bibliography originally published in 1916.
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Papermaking in Pioneer America
Philadelphia University of Philadelphia Press 1952 8vo (24 cm), folding map, xiv, 178, [8] ff of plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards (boards little discolored). A history of the beginning of American paper making (1690 -1817). Illustrated with examples of watermarks.
Hardcover Fine
Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1943 8vo (23.5 cm). Folding map, xxv, 398, xxiii pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little soiled). The first edition of a comprehensive history of paper making from its invention in China, through its development with characteristic differences in other Orient countries, its introduction into Europe and further development there. Incidentally are discussed innumerable aspects of the fabrication of paper, watermarking, the differences between "laid" and "wove" paper and between handmade and machine-made paper.
Hardcover Fine
Popierius Lietuvoje XV-XVIII a. Vol. I - II [Paper in Lithuania in XV-XVIII century, complete set]
Vilnius Leidykla "Mintis" 1967 2 volumes 4to (33 cm), 288 pp; 580 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt and dust jacket, slipcase (slipcase rubbed, dj frayed at extremities, paper missing at corners and spine of dj of the the second volume, bindings and internally fine). Inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper of the first volume, Lithuanian scholar and collector Edmund Laucevicius (1906-1973 ). Preface and summary in Lithuanian, Russian and English, the text in Lithuanian. The first volume contains the text and the catalogue, the second reproductions of 4276 watermarks.
Hardcover Fine Inscribed by Author(s)
Istoriya ukrayins'koho paperu
L'viv 1994 12mo (19 cm), 188 pp. Printed wrappers (collector's stamp bottom of the title). In Ukrainian. A history of Ukrainian paper. Contents include a historiography; medieval & renaissance paper mills and their watermarks; paper mills end of 18th - 19th century; watermarks. A chronological list of Ukrainian paper mills in appendix.
Soft cover Fine
Dzieje starego papiernictwa śląskiego
Wroclaw Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich 1961 8vo (25 cm), 200 pp. Printed wrappers (spine little rubbed). A history of the papermaking in Silesia. The book deals primarily with the social and economics aspect of the history of the papermaking in Silesia from the end of 15th to the middle of 19th century with the special attention to the production and its technique. Problems connected with paper patterns, although not entirely left out, have been treated only superficially. In Polish with the summary in English.
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The First 175 Years of Crane Papermaking
Dalton, MA Crane & Co 1977 4to (26 cm), 76 pp printed on heavy paper. Publisher's cloth.
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The diaries of James Simmons, paper maker of Haslemere, 1831-1868: Extracts
Tabard Private Press 1990 Square 8vo (24 x 25 cm), IX, 190 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine, tipped in illustrations. Special edition limited to 210 copies on mould-made paper, this. is no. 175. Extracts from the diaries of James Simmons, paper-maker of Haslemere in Surrey.
Hardcover Fine
A history of Russian Hand Paper-Mills and their Watermarks
Hilversum The Paper Publications Society 1962 4to (31.5 cm), front., XXX, 304 pp, X plates, 2 folding maps. Edited and adapted for publication in English by J. S. G. Simmons. The work is divided into 2 parts, of which the first and larger part is concerned with the history of paper-making and, especially, of paper-mills in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic areas. Part II is devoted to watermarks. Five appendixes discuss moulds, chain-line and laid-line dimensions, the time-lag between paper-manufacture and paper-use, the technique of attributing Russian papers to their places of manufacture, and ream-wrapper labels. Appendixes are followed by a list of the 815 watermarks which are reproduced. Lists of dates occurring in the watermarks, a typological index and an index of the letters and words in the marks conclude the text of the volume.
Hardcover Fine
Papiery wzorzyste katalog zbiorów Muzeum Papiernictwa w Dusznikach Zdroju
Duszniki Zdrój Muzeum Papiernictwa w Dusznikach Zdroju 2012 4to (30 cm), 306 pp. Laminated wrappers. Decorative papers: A catalogue of the collection of the Duszniki Zdrój Museum of Papermaking. An Introduction "Paper ornamentation techniques. An historical outline" in Polish and English, the catalogue in Polish. "This catalogue represents another step in that investigation of historical techniques and technologies for the ornamentation of paper. It contains close to 800 examples of hand-decorated paper, primarily crated by Krakow bookbinder Stefan Szczerbinski (1892-1972). It also includes the work of other renowned artist-bookbinders of Krakow and papers crated by Swiss bookbinder Emil Kretz (1896-1960). Most decorated papers ornamented as a batch are more or less identical in terms of pattern and color. The illustrations in this publication encompass only some of the holdings, which are representative of individual ornamentation techniques." (from the Introduction.)
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