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PAPERMAKING IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND.
Thomas, Peter and Donna

- Santa Cruz, CA : Peter & Donna Thomas 1990 - 12mo. - full leather, four raised bands, slipcase. - (42) pages. - Order Nr. 31793 - Price: $ 300.00

First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Reproduces diary entries written by John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes which record their visit to an English paper mill. These accounts are the only known records of how paper was being made in England in the 1600s. Contains an original sample of seventeenth century paper and a reproduction of brown paper. Printed by letterpress on handmade paper and illustrated with five linocuts by Donna Thomas.

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> EVELYN, JOHN
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