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Show 21 PAPERMAKIN and as late as 1790 paper of this kind was common in England. I the copy of Virgil before me there are but 136 of the entire 43 Pages on wove paper, the remaining pages (246) being on ver fine antique laid paper. In the first wove or papier vélin shects th ports, of the mould. Perhaps the wove cover that was used i making the paper for the Virgil had been stretched directly ove a mould of the laid type. These imperfections appeared in pape until about x800 when they were eliminated by placing a coarselywoven metal screen under the top wove covering, It is not know whether Baskerville made his own paper or had it fabricated in neighbouring mill. In a letter to Horace Walpole, fourth carl o Oxford, (1717-1797), written in 1762, Baskerville wrote: "The ink presses, chases, moulds for casting, and all apparatus for printin were made in my own shops," but he did not state that he possessed any papermaking appliances From this i that he did not operate a paper mill, and it s reason that he was kept occupicd with the type founding and printin without adding to his labours the making of paper In the prefice of Baskerville's edition of Paradise Lost, 1755, th pape Although the wove paper was acclaimed by Baskerville and th literary public in general, it does not appear that the Birmingha printer made exclusive use of paper of this type, for a number o editions appeared afier 1757 imprinted upon paper of the old style Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |