Rochester: Alling & Cory, 1944. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 76 pages. Well printed book on fine paper. Illustrated. Smudge mark on front cover. READ MORE about ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE PAPER BUSINESS 1819-1944, BEING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 5524
(Cohoes, NY): Mohawk Paper Mills, (1991). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 18 pages. Issue No. 1. Commenced a series of technical notes from the mill. Focuses on clear coatings to enhance printing on uncoated papers. Introduction, production notes. Color illustrations. READ MORE about OVERCOATS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115476
(Cohoes, NY): Mohawk Paper Mills, n.d. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 21+(1) pages. Illustrated guide to paper products. READ MORE about PAPER BASICS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 78633
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (II), 116, (2) pages. Sales catalogue listing 791 lots of material about papermaking and paper specimens. Illustrated. The catalogue includes a two page introduction by Paul S. Koda written for this catalogue. Label on cover and ink inscription. READ MORE about PAPER HISTORY AND TECHNIQUE, CATALOGUE 122
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 45279
Wilmington, Hercules Powder Co, 1956. 4to. spiral bound stiff paper wrappers. 36, (2) pages. 1956 25, 1. Voorn on Old Norwegian Paper Mills, Kotte on the history of vegetable parchment and an article by Donnelly on early papermaking in California. READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5552
Wilmington: Hercules Powder Co., 1958. 4to. spiral plastic spine with stiff paper wrappers. 38 pages. Volume 27, No.2. With a fine article on the Gilpins by Hancock and Wilkinson, Voorn on Balzac and the papermaking industry and Donnelly on early papermaking in Oregon. READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5557
Wilmington: Hercules Powder Co., 1959. 4to. spiral plastic spine with stiff paper wrappers. 38 pages. Volume 28, No.1. Contains Part Two of Tschudin's A History of Papermaking in Basel, Beatty on early papermaking in Utah and Renker on William Cobbett and his Cornstalk Paper. READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 5558
Wilmington: Hercules Powder Co., 1967. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. 54, (2) pages. Volume 36, No.1. Contains Voorn's A Paper Mill and Museum in Holland, a history of Connecticut paper mills and a biography of John Dickinson. READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 5570
Wilmington, Hercules Powder Co., 1970. 4to. stiff paper wrappers with plastic spiral binding. 45, (4) pages. Volume 39, No.1. Contains part one of the article on Paper Mills of Chester County, Pa. and a short history of Polish papermaking. READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5573
Wilmington: Hercules Powder Co., 1966. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. 38, (4) pages. Volume 35, No.2. Edwards on Connecticut Paper Mills, Buehler on Wisconsin Paper Industry and Longfield on Excise Marks on English Wallpapers. READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 16203
Worcester: AAS, n.d. broadside (11.5 x 7.5 inches). Reproduction of this colonial broadside advertisement for rags. The ad contains a small woodcut of a mill and other information concerning the Hugh McLean and Co. READ MORE about PAPER-MILLS AT THE SLITTING-MILL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 312
Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, (2001). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. Table of contents, introduction, list of suppliers, index, credits. Discussion of over fifty techniques for making and embellishing handmade paper. Color issustrations throughout. READ MORE about PAPERMAKING TECHNIQUES BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134025
Spring Grove, PA: The Glatfelter Co., (1962). small 4to. spiral bound. (22) pages. Illustrated. READ MORE about PULP, PAPER AND HISTORY ... THE GLATFELTER STORY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 28829
Greensboro, NC: The Walter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1989-90. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 14 pages. Features an article commemorating the 300th anniversary of papermaking in the United States with a catalogue of a concurrent exhibition at the library. Post-it note on inside front wrapper noting that this issue of the report of this kind. Includes a list of donors and financial statement. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about REPORT OF THE SECRETARY FOR THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 122715
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 8vo. paper wrappers. 196 pages. Reams in the Desert is the first book to explore the complete story behind the Wests pioneer attempt at paper production. The unlikely site was a desert valley in northern Utah. Paper had been made commercially in the United States for well over a century by the time that the first paper made west of the Mississippi River emerged from the vat. Complicated..... READ MORE about REAMS IN THE DESERT: PAPERMAKING IN UTAH, 1849-1893
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 136822
1975. 4to. paper wrappers. pp.17-24. An article in The paper quarterly for the Graphic arts, Vol. XLI, No.4, Bicentennial Issue. Also has articles on censorship, printing ink and Zenger. READ MORE about " PAPER: FROM CRAFT TO INDUSTRY IN A NEW NATION."
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 20239
Newark: University of Delaware, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 55+(1) pages. Well written catalogue describing some of the highlights of the University's excellent collection of books about papermaking and marbling. Includes a large amount of Bird & Bull material, as Delaware holds most of the archives of the press. READ MORE about EAST-WEST: HAND PAPERMAKING TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS, AN EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24012
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2016. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 696 pages. This history of 19th- and early 20th-century paper-conservation practices in the United States and Western Europe weaves together two story lines. The development and character of the profession unfolds in descriptions of materials and processes used in libraries, archives, and fine-arts museums; related scientific advances; differing approaches to treatment; the impact of broad cultural shifts; and sketches of people active in the..... READ MORE about YOURS RESPECTFULLY, WILLIAM BERWICK: PAPER CONSERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE,...
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 138585
N.P. n.p., n.d. large 8vo. stapled. (i), 11 pages. A brief overview of the history and process of papermaking. Typescript. READ MORE about A STORY OF PAPERMAKING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 51034
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2016. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. Eight retired papermakers who worked in the Tuckenhay Mill in Devon, England, were interviewed about their daily activities working in the Mill in the late 1990s. The interviews present fascinating accounts about the materials and techniques that went into making paper by hand, a craft that was rarely practiced in England in the 20th c., a craft that changed little from past..... READ MORE about THEY MADE THE PAPER AT TUCKENHAY MILL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138587
London: Lund Humphries, (1983). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 280 pages. First edition. Details of hand-made papermaking with surveys of 115 mills producing hand-made paper as of 1983. With a section on papers produced by Henry Morris at his San Seriffe Paper Mill, a hoax, of course. Illustrated. Spine of jacket slightly faded. READ MORE about HANDMADE PAPER TODAY A WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF MILLS, PAPERS, TECHNIQUES AND USES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 18480
(Washington D.C.): Hand Papermaking, 2001. 4to. booklet handsewn in stiff paper wrapper, loose sheet each in a protective folder, all housed in a custom-made clamshell box which is in the original cardboard box. (iv), 42+(2) pages. Limited to an edition of 150 copies. This is the fifth portfolio in the ongoing series of portfolios of handmade papers. The juried collection features seventeen watermarked sheets of handmade paper using many techniques. Five were formed on historic..... READ MORE about WATERMARKS IN HANDMADE PAPER: MODERN AND HISTORIC
Price: $495.00 Order nr. 93004
New York: Burt Franklin, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xv, 352 pages. Reprint of the first edition. The illustrations in this reprint are not nearly as good as in the original edition but still very useful for reference. Fine condition. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PAPER-MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES 1690-1916
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 5390
Washington: GPO, 1909. 8vo. disbound. 51 pages. U.S. Department of Agriculture Report No. 89. With introduction by H.W. Wiley and C. Hart Merriam of the Committee on Paper. Discussion of factors determining the quality and durability of paper, methods of paper sampling, specifications for printing paper, writing paper, blotting paper, wrapping paper and illustrations. Wiley was Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry; Merriam was chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey and Veitch was Chief..... READ MORE about DURABILITY AND ECONOMY IN PAPERS FOR PERMANENT RECORDS. INCLUDING PAPER SPECIFICATIONS BY F.P....
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 29025
New York: United States Pulp Producers Assoc. 1955. 4to. cloth-backed boards. 48 pages. Illustrated. Covers show minor spotting. READ MORE about WOOD PULP, A BASIC FIBER, THE STORY OF THE ORIGIN DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF A GREAT...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5459
