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Show PREFATOR ' NOT URING the fifteen or twenty years in which I hav been interested in handmade paper, and alsoin th Ristory.of papermaking, a large ntmber of book relative to these subjects have been collected. Itha \\ been my wish in this bibliography to form a perma nent record of the works which had appeared befor the year 1800, as no other attempt has been mad along this line of research A select collection of material upon a subject ha always seemed to me to be a necessary preliminar step toiits study, and this compilation is published i hope of encouraging research in the interesting art of the early craftsme whofashioned paper by hand, and made it possible for the "art preservativ of all arts" to hand down to us the literary and graphic art treasures whic bave accrued since the invention of printing Tt will be noted that the booksand pamphletslisted are all by Europea or American writers, as I have made no effort to include any item of Orientalorigin, nor bas there been any desire to enumerate the many encyclopedic articles of any language With one or two exceptions I either possess copies of the volumes liste or have examined the worksin libraries. I have set most of the tidesan description of the books directly from the type-case without note or copy ‘but with the original volumes and pamphlets before me "All thetitle-pages have been reproduced directly from the old books an have been printed upon paper as nearly like the original as possible so tha each facsimile might resemble the antique title-page in every way- Th photograph of the two pages from the Ulman Stromer manuscript wa kindly furnished by the director of the Germanisches National Museum i Narnberg, where this interesting document has been deposited for year Dard Hunter February 7,12 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |
