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Show PANSA, MUTIO An Account of the Original of Writing and Paper. In: The Harleia Miscellany. Volume 3, pages 336-9, 1744 Thisarticle was taken from a bookentitledLaLibraria Vaticana writte by Mutio Pansa, keeperof the Vatican L ibrary, and printed in Rome. Th Miscellany gives from this volume: "Of the Use of Booksand the Inventio of Letters, and o the Paper of the Ancients, o the Papyrus of the Roman .....and the Paper of our Times. PAPERMAKING TRADE A general description of all Trades, digested in alphabetical order: b ‘which Parents, Guardians, and Trustees, may, with greater ease an certainty, make choice of Trades agreeable to the Capacity, Education Inclination, Strength, and Fortune of the Youth under their Care London, 1747. 1017 cm This was the first English book of trades to include papermaking as suitable calling or avocation for the youth of England. The section of th book devoted to this craft reads: "Papermaking requires much waterand great deal of room, and therefore is altogether carried on at water-mills i the country, which undertakings are not numerous. Itgoes through variou operations and divers hands before it is completed, and the moulding part ‘which is the principal, requires a nice hand, and a good eye "They take with an apprentice 50r 10 pounds, who work from six o six and be ought not to be a very tender Iad; they paya journeyman moulde 15 or 18shillingsa week;anda mill with the proper utensils (beside whic there must be a reserve of at least 200 pounds cash for a stock of rags, etc. will stand one, minded to be a master, in 100 pounds of which some hav two or three. AMES, JOSEPH, 1688175 Typographical Antiquities Being an Historical Account of Printing i England: with some Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a Register o Books printed by them, from the Year mcceclxxi to the Year mdc London, 1749. 1926 cm The only papermaking interest in this volume is the reproduction o anumber of watermarks from the paper upon which Caxton's books wer printed. These facsimiles appear on pages 74 and 75 of Ames' work an are identical with those reproduced in the book by John Lewis, describe on page 28 of this bibliography 3 © 2005 Marriott Libr |