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SOME PAPERS HAND MADE BY JOHN MASON.
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- London : Maggs 1959
- 8vo.
- parchment-backed handmade paper-covered boards with actual leafs inlaid in both covers, enclosed in cardboard box with paper cover label.
- 32 leaves.
- Order Nr. 118362
- Price: $ 650.00
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First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. Short history of this papermaker followed by actual examples of paper produced during the period 1954 to 1959. Consists of heavy stock produced in different colors some of which contain illustrations and some of which contain leaf specimens, flowers, etc. Thue author explains the history of each specimen. Very fine copy.
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> Mason, John, PAPER MAKING AS AN ARTISTIC CRAFT.
> Mason, John, J.H. MASON, R.D.I., A SELECTION FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF A SCHOLAR PRINTER MADE BY HIS SON JOHN MASON.
> Mason, John, PAPER MAKING AS AN ARTISTIC CRAFT.
> 446, ENGLISH LITERATURE, MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS 14TH TO THE 18TH CENTURIES.

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DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
First edition. (Brenni no.482). Reproductions of well over 100 bindings with many in full color. Some rubbing along extremities. Text in English with summary in Danish. Jacket chipped with small pieces missing. Ownership inscription in pencil. Unusual to find in jacket.

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