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Show 3 PAPERMAKIN had formed, and reads: "This collection of shreads and scraps o old parchment makes me bold to mention to you, Sir, another lik collection of paper that I have made when I was last in London is [ have put together in two volumes of which I venture t give you some account. (The two volumes, bound in one, no form the Sloane Manuscript No. 526, in the British Museurn.) Th first volume contains: Some of our countrey common brown, grey blue, red, and black paper. Some Eastern EEmn i the East Indics, Persia, -r.,my, and China, and some Chines paper printed upon . . . The other s s of sheets and pieces of whm Eumpcnn paper which are plac'd according to their several marks and stamps. The reason why I gathfine colours, etc., bu to know whether they would confirm a notion I have of the originall of our paper, which, to me, they do. And further, I though that some time or other the history of paper might be attempted and with so much the more hope of success, when the author, whoever he may be, has before his eyes most of the sorts of that subjec that he is to treat about. The writer of this letter, Humphrey Wanley, had opportunit further to aid in the collection of papers, as will be noted in th next item, relating to John Bagford There has never been a more ardent collector than this Joh 675-1715), even though his pursuits were not alway legitimately carried on. In 1707 Bagford published in the Philosophical Translations: "A proposa for a history of printing, pri ers, illuminators, and papermaking; on subscription 1o shillings and 10 shillings more on delivery of a volume in folio, containin 200 sheets." The book was never published, but the manuscript and material that Bagford possessed are now in the British Mu Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |