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OMNIBUS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMATEUR PAPERMAKERS WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF PRIVATE PRESSES, BOOK PRINTING AND SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THESE ACTIVITIES.
Morris, Henry
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Chapters on The Mould, The Beater, Other Necessary Equipment and Beating Pulp, Some Observations on Private Presses, Making, Drying and Sizing Paper, Notes on Printing and Binding. Includes six samples of paper used by Morris for his books. Loosely inserted is a printed paper specimen with text referring to page 120 of the book. Also present is the four page prospectus. The boards are spotted. Small security plate on back pastedown.
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> Pfeiffer, Gordon (editor), AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING.
> Taylor, W. Thomas and Henry Morris, TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BIRD & BULL A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958-1979.
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XIX CENTURY ILLUSTRATION, SOME METHODS USED IN ENGLISH BO...
by Wakeman, Geoffrey
Printed in an edition limited to only 75 numbered copies. (Bibliography of the Plough Press, p.8). Includes descriptions and actual period examples laid-in for 16 different printing processes utilized during the nineteenth century. Included are familiar processes such as wood engraving, copper and steel engraving, lithography, and aquatint as well as less familiar processes such as omnigraphy, and anastatic printing. An early book from this fine English press. Useful as teaching tool because of the examples of the different processes which are present. This copy has been supplemented by a number of additional samples of the various processes and there is a note in pencil stating that "This is an extra-illustrated copy." Slipcase rubbed and faded along edges.
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