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Show OLD~PAPERMAKIN 10 As the bleaching of material for papermalsing wa not in general use until the late eighteenth century, the paper made before that time assumed th same tone as the material from which it was made It is interesting to note that no paper except tha of a coarse brown tint was produced in Englan until 1690, about the time the first paper mill i America was established In examining early printed books it will be see that in many instances the deckle or rough edge of the paper had been cut away. In some case this trimming had been done before the paper wa printed upon, as many of the old typographers n doubt regarded the deckle edges simply as necessary imperfections in the forming of the sheets When the deckle edges were left undisturbed b the printer, they sometimes suffered at the hand of the binder, so it is more usual to find the earl volumes with cut edges than with the origina deckles. William Blades in "Les Livres et Leur Ennemis," (Paris, 1883), states: "T he weapon wit which the binder dealt the most deadly blow was the ‘plow, the effect of which was to cut awa the margins, placing the printing in a false positio relatively to the page, and often denuding th worlss of a portion of the very text. In binding, books were often trimmed down s thata folio became a quarto, ora quarto an octavo in size. Modern bibliographers usually catalogu Digital image© 2004 Mariot Libary, Universty o Uta. All right reserved |