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Show river paper, was the oldest form of papermaking in nature. This materia he termeda coralline product, being the web of water insects,seed capsules or insects' eggs. Senge discusses the probabilit HISTORICAL ACCOUN SUBSTANCE S DESCRIBE EVENTS, AND T0 CONVEY IDEAS e ingfound asa substitut for rags in papermaking KOOPS MATTHIAS Historical account o ;:hE st;)bskanwdv:hig ave been used to describe events, and t convey ideas, from th earliest date, to the in vention of paper INVENTION OF PAPER SECOND EDITION Py MATTHTAS KOOES K L of sufficientconfervabe The title-page of the second edition o the work by Matthias Koops published in the year 1801 London, 1800 16x27 cm The earliestedition o this notable work wa "printed on the first useful paper manufacture solely from straw." Th paper is of the laid typ and bears thecrownan G.R..watermark. Ther isan appendix of seve pages "printed on pape ‘made from wood alone the produceof thiscoun try, without any intermixture of rags, wast paper, bark, straw, o any other vegetable sub stance, fromwhich pape might be, or has hithertobeen manufactured" The first edition embraces eighty-two pagesof text The second edition of Matthias Koops' work (London, 1801. 12 x20cm. was "printed on paper re.made from old printed and written paper," wit asixteen page appendix on paper made from wood. The paper used in thi edition is of the wove type, without watermarks. Another printing of thi 4 Digital mage © 2005 Marriot Lib of Utah, All ights resarved |