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One of 35 Copies

EARLY AMERICAN PAPERMAKING: TWO TREATISES ON MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES REPRINTED FROM JAMES CUTBUSH'S AMERICAN ARTIST'S MANUAL (1814).
Bidwell, John (editor)

- New Castle : Oak Knoll Books 1990 - 8vo. - cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label, in a larger slipcase with a separate portfolio containing a piece of Robeson handmade paper. - 90, (2) pages. - Order Nr. 31790 - Price: $ 650.00

First edition, limited to 180 copies of which this is one of the 35 special copies bound thus and containing a folded piece of original Robeson handmade paper with watermark referred to in the text as "exhibiting the typical characteristics of handmade stock produced in the middle or late 1830s, when many American mills had already adopted mass production methods." The watermark and countermark in this paper are also reproduced as illustrations.

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