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Order Nr. 70707 LIKHACHEV'S WATERMARKS, AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION. J. S. C. Simmons, Be Van...

LIKHACHEV'S WATERMARKS, AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION.

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Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1994. 4to. cloth. ii,396; 70 pages and 436 plates showing many watermarks. XV. Two volumes. First edition. The last publication of the Paper Publications Society. The original of this monumental work was issued in Russian in only 150 copies. This English language edition has been edited and includes information not in the original edition. 98% of the watermarks described are not Russian watermarks but rather are European watermarks. A number..... READ MORE

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                                  CONTENTS

                                 VOLUME ONE

List of Subscribers                                                           ix
Prefatory Note by the Chairman of the Paper Publications Society            xiii
General Editor's Preface                                                    xvii
Abbreviations and Glossary                                                   xxi
Bibliographical List                                                      xxxiii
Nikolai Petrovich Likhachev (1862-1936)                                      xli

List of Watermarks                                                             1
   Additional Watermarks from Likh.B                                         204
Chronological List of Watermarks                                             209
List of Archives and Libraries                                               305
List of Printed Sources                                                      323
Concordances to Published Sources of Watermark Reproductions (1844-1897)     333
Special Elements                                                             347
   Coats of Arms, Emblems, etc                                               349
   Dates and Figures
   Letters, Names, and Words                                                 355
   Cyrillic Letters, Names, and Words                                        359
   Merchants' and Other Marks                                                361
Appendix A                                                                   365
   Briquet's Les Filigranes and Likhachev                                    366
   Corrections and A.dditions to Likhach~v ref~rences in Briquet             367
   Concordance to Llkhachev references m Bnquet                              372
   Concordance to Likhachev marks reproduced in Briquet                      381
Appendix B                                                                   383
   The Paper Publications Society. A Brief Historical Account                385
   The Paper Publications Society. A List of Publications                    393

The coat of arms on the half-title is that of the Likhachev family (Tver'
Province) and is reproduced from Part 6 of the Obshchii gerbovnik Rossiiskoi
Imperii ['General Armory of the Russian Empire'] (StP. [1801}).

The frontispiece is reproduced from an original drawing by V. D. Falileev in
the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian
Academy of Sciences.

A portrait of Emile Joseph Labarre, c.1953, faces p.385.

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                                        VOLUME TWO 

Typological Index                                                              1
Russian-English Index of Typological Terms                                     9
Arrangement of Watermark-Types in the Plates                                  11

PLATES 1-436

General and Subject Index                                                     41
Topographical Index                                                           53
Index of Personal Names                                                       59

The frontispiece is reproduced from N. P. Likhachev's bookplate, by 
N. E. Makarenko, 1908.