THE PAPER MAKER, A SURVEY OF LESSER-KNOWN HAND PAPER MILLS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA AND AN ACCOUNT OF A UNIQUE PUBLICATION, WITH A SELECTIVE INDEX.
- North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1974.
- small 4to.
- quarter natural goatskin over red paste paper over boards
- (iv), 130 pages.
Price: $450.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 1564
NOTE: SOLD AS IS - Limited to only 175 numbered copies and printed by hand on handmade paper manufactured by Morris. Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine lightly browned, large dampstain throughout.
Bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt. (Taylor A15). The first part of this book consists of a survey made by Morris of the lesser known hand papermakers then in existence. He has written short histories of 11 of these including the Twinrocker of America and the Papeterie Saint-Gilles of Canada and the rest from Europe. With 19 pages of illustrations and samples from each of the mills inserted including a papyrus sample from Hassan Ragab at the Papyrus Institute in Cairo. The second part of the book consists of an index to The Paper Maker, that excellent periodical issued by Hercules.
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