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Show DIDOT, FIRMIN, 1764183 Lettre sur les découvertes de M. Didot, ainé, dans les arts de la papeterie Paris, 1783 A pamphlet of sixteen pages relating to the discoveries of M. Didot, th elder, in the art of paper manufacture BREITKOPE, JOHANN GOTTLOB IMMANUEL, 1719-1794 Versuch, den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einfihrung des Leinenpapieres, und den Anfang der Holzschneidekunst in Buropa zu erforschen. Leipzig, 17841801. 2 volumes. 19X 24 cm This two volume work is printed on thin, unsized paper ofa blue-gre color. Most of the contents is devoted to the history of playing-cards an engraving on wood. The first volume (pages 45112) gives a description o linen paper with engravings showing the interior ofa Japanese pape mill, and the appliances ofa Hindustani paper manufactory. There ar also engravings of pulp stampers and reproductions of twenty early watermarks, mostly bull head devicesof the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Breitkopt was a celebrated printer and publisher of Leipzig, and also skilled musician. In 1750 he invented movable types for printing music ASTLE, THOMAS, 17357180 The Origin and Progress of Writing. . . also some account o the Origi and Progress of Printing. London, 1784. 222 Pages 203207 are devoted tothe history of papyrus, Chinese paper, cotto paper, and paper made from linen rags VILLETTE, CHARLES MICHEL DE, 1736-1793 Qeuvres du Marquis de Villette. London, 1786. 10x16 cm The paper upon which thisedition was printed was made from the bar of the lime tree; another edition on marsh mallow paper. The malker o the paper was Lévrier de Lisle, who in a prefatory note says he has use different plants, barks, and common vegetables for making paper, as he desired to prove that less valuable material could be substituted for that i general use and which was daily becoming rarer. At the end of the boo thereare specimen pagesof paper made from nettles, hops, moss, reeds,thre varieties of conferva, roots of dandelions, hazel wood, prick wood bar with its pellicle and crust, marsh mallow, poplar, ok, and osier bark Digital Image© 2005 Marriott Library Universityof Utah, All rights reserved |
