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Show o era a a e h n - n THE OLD WATERMARK 20 tain no fewer than fifty papermarks in a single book. To accoun for this some writers contend that it was necessary for the carl printers to purchase their paper from various mills in order to ge sufficient material for their use, claiming that the mills were smal 148 148 152 53 144 147 152 xo. 17 Watermarks of potts and hands were common through severa centuries of papermakin and could not furnish enough paper which was uniform in siz thickness, and watermark. While in the fifteenth century thi might have been essential it would not have scemed necessary i the sixteenth; for by the sixteenth ccn(\lry paper manufacture wa an industry of vigorous growth in most European countries, It i recorded that John Spilman, i operated a paper mill in England in 1588, employed as many as 600 workers, and Eng]and a that time was not a great Wmnakmg country. This may be erroneous for there is not a millin all England today rmxmg handmade paper in which so many smploycu are needed, and th methods of work do not differ greatly from xl\osc uk several centuries ago, Tt is certain, however, thatin th ntury supplics of book paper were abundant, yet in e books printed i Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
