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Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988 : A Short History
by Hills, R.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper
- ISBN 10
- 0485113465
- ISBN 13
- 9780485113464
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Athlone Press, London, first edition, 1988. Cloth, 4to, 25 cm,. ix, 249 pp, ills. Britain's first papermaker, John Tate, began work five hundred years ago. In this short history, Dr Hills tells the story of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing to this country, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day. Contents include: This Paper Thynne, John Tate; Paper of High Grade, Papermaking before 1500; The Art of Watermarking; A New Industry Emerges, 1500-1800; The Whatmans and Wove Paper; The Origins of Wallpaper; The Development of the Fourdrinier Machine; Rival Machines for Making Paper; The Nineteenth-Century Shortage of Rags; Esparto and Other Types of Pulp; The Paper Machine Matures; The Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Glossary; Index. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-59194
- Title
- Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988 : A Short History
- Author
- Hills, R.L
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 4to, 25 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0485113465
- ISBN 13
- 9780485113464
- Publisher
- Athlone Press, London, first edition, 1988
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- ix, 249 pp, ills
- Keywords
- Papermaking - Great Britain - History Paper - History - England Great Britain, Paper manufacturing industries, 1488-1988 Paper industry, Great Britain, History Paper mills, Great Britain, History Hills, Richard Leslie 0485113465
- Bookseller catalogs
- Paper and Watermarks;
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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