Third edition. (Appleton p.90). With material on the origin of writing, materials upon which men wrote, Egyptian papyrus, James Whatman, watermarks, and the study of paper in determining forgery including a section on Ireland's fabrication of the Shakespeare MSS. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the Zaehnsdorf Company bookplate. Presentation on free endpaper "William Hartridge Esq with the author's kind regards." Minor spotting of front cover. Pages in back show a water stain in the lower margin.