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Paper, Wasps and Packages The Romantic Story of Paper and its Influence on the Course of History by Weaver, Alexander
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 471
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Container Corporation of America,
- Place: Chicago:
- Date published: 1937
- Pages: 79 pp
Description
Chicago:: Container Corporation of America,, 1937. 4to,. Illustrated by Edgar Miller including a large folding plate of the Cylinder Paperboard Machine at the Philadelphia Plan of Container Corporation, at rear. linen covered boards with gilt stamping. Scuff to rear board, rear plate has a few extra creases from misfolding, but otherwise a good bright copy. An interesting history of the rise of paper making in China and Europe. Nicely illustrated. Very small bookplate of Rudolph Ruzichars on front pastedown.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
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