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Show 50 ANNUAL BEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1021 While there is no set rule for distinguishing the paper of one century or country from another, it is possnl.\lc by making a study o 1aid and chain lines and the character of the wire unwegsmm an Lc\Lu of the paer, to arrive at tlu. wlnmumte d Vith wove ., however, it is not easy to at ac any dat Lhe shceL bu 1)1|)e|- of this kind was usually w'ncrm x'ked e, and a wove paper has been made only since 1750 it is too recent to excit much curiosity from u his p R ngland, but no patentLd which by ameans of uted zols impasted a ribbed appearwove paper. This made the paper xcwmble wmt T St el ba light. This fluuug was thought to give a pleasing appearance t typoy ;,ruphv, and a great many books were printed on it during th carly nine ecnth century. The vogue for this fluted spes. was o short dumtvon however, an ] Lnd ely seen i book printing uxitil 50 years aft had been introduced William Morns selected antique Taid 7nyml' for use at the K 1msw:. Press, and this typu then came into favor with m the private p A fine book prmum,, cithe antique Inid o i s paper is used, for i mold sidered to be more ‘ut)sc o 'Jm Inid ml 1 n lines in paper form a means oE detpxmmm es of an boolu "lmh in ngly ca 1onued bmdm they were often trimmed dn\ wn so that fulm became a quarto i size. Blades® says, The weapon with "mh um binder deals th most deadly blows to boolksis the ¢ plo of which is to cu away the margins, placing the print in a fk 1sc pomlon relatively t the back and head, and often denuding the work of a portion of th very test. Books are often catalogued by bibliographers by measuremen instead of by the paper. If a book is printed on a once-folded sheet it will always be a fclio, how much a ruthless or ;gnolm binder may cut it do s is true of all the differen o ok T e e pnmbk in old volumes, us the mrgm were loft \\udp m the notes of the readers, so that a folio could b t down se m interfering with the printed text oy vl ool il ok o enoloib s the paper on "Inch T printed o paper molds ho chai lines ran the s of the sheet and the 1‘m1 lines nu long way the watermarl nppu\rmz in the center of th o fig. 1). I a folio the sheet was folded in the center, thmugh i et iass 658 " William Biades, clean.sh data import.tsv out README Les Livres et Leurs Enncmls," pago 09, 8vo, Parls, 1881 both of th e | W rie mold dein T i in th as th Digitl image ©2004 WariotLbary, Univeriyof Uiah. All rigtsrserved |