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Show BARTHOLOMAEUS: DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM Printed by Wynken de Worde, the successor of William Caxton Westminster, 149 This volume is supposed tobe the first book printed in England in whic English paper was used, The paper was made by John Tate who operated amill in Hertford. The watermark used by Tat wasin the form of an eight-pointed starenclosed inadoublecircle John Tate was a mercer in London, and the son of John Tate who was mayor in 1473 He died in 1507, and his will contained severa references to the paper mill. In the first place he bequeathed to Thoma Bolls of Hertford, "as moche whit paper or other paper as shal extende t the somme of xxvis. viijd. . .owte of my paper myll at Hertford." The he directed his executors to dispose of the paper mill "with all the goods woods, pastures, medes, with all the commodities concerning the said myl to the moostadvantage." Finally, in leaving to his eldest son Robert all hi lands in Hertfordshire and Essex, the paper mill was excluded: "My pape myll with the appurtenaunces to be alway excepted and to be solde. T he Tate mill was evidently short lived as there is noevidence tosho of its existence before 1495 or after 1498 The verse in De Proprietatibus Rerum regarding th paper upon which the volume was printed SACHS, HANS, 1494157 Eygentliche Beschreibung Aller Sténde auff Erden, Hober und Nidriger Geistlicher und Weltlicher, Aller K tinsten, Handwercken, etc Franckfurt am Mayn, 1568, 15 x21 cm "The earliest engraving depicting a papermalker at work may be foun (1539-1591), and shows the vatman in the act of forming a sheet of pape in this book of trades. The wood engraving was made by Jost Amma upon a mould; also the stampers and press are visible in the background A reproduction of the engraving, with a translation of the verse by th L |
