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Show 5 OLD~PAPERMAKIN Decimus. Zneidos;" and "Liber Undecimus HEneidos," while in the 1771 edition they appea uniform with the other titles, "Zneidos Libe Decimus," "Zneidos Liber Undecimus.") In W Shenstone's "Letters and Works," (1791, Letter 88) the following reference is made to this exceptiona book: "My neighbour, Baskerville, at the close o this month (March 17577) publishes his fine editio of Virgil; it will for type and paper be a perfect curiosity." The earliest use of wove paper known t Rhys Jenkins was in "Philosophical Transactions for 1788. This writer also states that in 1796 th English publication "Archaeologia" changed fro laid to wove paper However, the Virgil from th press of Baskerville was the first wove paper boo and as late as 1790 this kind of paper was common In the copy of Virgil being used to furnish sampl Jeaves for this bool, only about one-third of th pages are printed on the wove paper, the balanc of the volume being on paper of the laid style. I will be noticed that the ribs of the moulds appea distinctly in this early wove paper, caused, n doubt, by the woven metal screening having bee wired directly to the wooden ribs of the moulds This defect was eliminated by placing a coarsel woven screen under the top wove covering It was wove paper of English fabrication tha Benjamin Franklin exhibited in Paris about th year 1777. This novel paper made a favourabl Digital image© 2004 Mariot Libary, Universty o Utah. Al right reserved |