Search Results: Paper and Watermarks from Wykeham Books

Studio Vista, London, first English edition, 1978. Cloth, large 8vo, 28 cm,. 112 pp. From the blurb: " Handmade paper is becoming an increasingly popular modern craft. The raw materials are readily available and cheap, and very little special equipment or expertise is required, making it an excellent craft for all ages. The book explains the basic techniques of papermaking, accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and diagrams of equipment and materials. Once the reader has learnt the basic techniques, the author gives ideas for several projects in which to use handmade paper: casting, layering, paper for printmaking and drawing, and paper collage. The book is ideal for écologists interested in recycling materials, for printers, calligraphers, and those who wish to make less conventional paper, and for the teacher looking for a change in classroom projects. The Art and Craft of Handmade Paper opens with a section on the history of papermaking, thus placing the craft in context with both… Read More

Mitchell Beazley in association with Il Papiro, London, 1999 reprint of 1987 first edition. Laminated wrappers, oblong 4to, 27 cm,. 168 pp, (over 100 having colour ills). 200 diagrams,. Fine.

Printed at the Scolar Press for private distribution only, [Menston?], undated reprint (c. 1971) of the 1761 original edition. Printed at the Scolar Press for private distribution only. Printed wrappers, large 4to, printed paper cover label, 42 cm,. iv, 149 pp, xiv leaves of plates (1 folded). With excellent reproductions of plates showing 18th century papermaking. John Bidwell: "Lalande was an astronomer, not a paper- maker, and his treatise is based on scientific observation rather than on tradition or experience. Minor marks to wrappers which are a little edgeworn, contents Very Good.

Society of Archivists, London, first edition, 1971. Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. viii, [1], 84 pp, 8 plates. Contents include: 1 Introduction; 2 The Materials of English Archival Documents; 3 Forms and Causes of Damage and Deterioration; 4 'Traditional' and Other Methods of Repair; 5 Materials for Repair; 6 Equipment; 7 Stock Control; 8 Registration and Work Records; 9 Preliminary Work; 10 The Traditional Method of Repair: General; 11 The Traditional Method: Repair of Parchment Documents; 12 The Traditional Method: Repair of Paper Documents; 13 Repair of Maps and Very Large Documents; 14 Make-up; 15 Lamination; 16 Preservative Treatment Short of Repair; 17 Repair of Seals; 18 Tally-sticks, Wooden Boxes, etc; 19 Preparing Documents for Exhibition; 20 Paste and Size; 21 Deacidification; Appendix I: Equipment, Materials, etc; Appendix II: The Public Record Office Filing and Drilling Frame; Index. Booklabel on front pastedown endpaper, spine sunned, otherwise Good.

Society of Archivists, London, first edition, 1971. Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. viii, [1], 84 pp, 8 plates. Contents include: 1 Introduction; 2 The Materials of English Archival Documents; 3 Forms and Causes of Damage and Deterioration; 4 'Traditional' and Other Methods of Repair; 5 Materials for Repair; 6 Equipment; 7 Stock Control; 8 Registration and Work Records; 9 Preliminary Work; 10 The Traditional Method of Repair: General; 11 The Traditional Method: Repair of Parchment Documents; 12 The Traditional Method: Repair of Paper Documents; 13 Repair of Maps and Very Large Documents; 14 Make-up; 15 Lamination; 16 Preservative Treatment Short of Repair; 17 Repair of Seals; 18 Tally-sticks, Wooden Boxes, etc; 19 Preparing Documents for Exhibition; 20 Paste and Size; 21 Deacidification; Appendix I: Equipment, Materials, etc; Appendix II: The Public Record Office Filing and Drilling Frame; Index. Name on front free endpaper, otherwise Good.

Lund Humphries, London, first edition, 1983. Cloth, 4to,. 280 pp. Contents: Introduction. 1 How handmade paper is made. Raw materials, Methods of manufacture, Western method, Japanese and Western manufacture: a comparison., Eastern method. 2 Machine-made and mould-made papers. The Fourdrinier machine,The cylinder-mould machine, The spread of machine-made and mould-made papers. 3 Watermarks. 4 Contemporary handmade paper-mills. North America, South and Central America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australasia, Asia. 5 Contemporary European mould-made paper-mills. 6 Characteristics of a sheet of paper. Previous owner's blindstamp to two prelims, otherwise Fine in Fine dustwrapper.

World Print Council, San Francisco, first edition, 1979. Laminated illustrated wrappers, oblong large 8vo, 24 x 27 cm,. 118 pp. Wrappers rubbed, bookseller's sticker on rear wrapper, otherwise Good.

Institute of Paper Conservation, London, original journal issue, 1977. Printed wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm,. 56 pp, ills. Volume 2 1977 includes- A. D. Baynes-Cope: The effect of residues of manganese Compounds in paper on the bleaching of prints etc.; Moira Buick: One method of sewing single sheets for binding; Eric Harding: Further experience in the use of N-Methyl-2-Pyrroltdone as a solvent for old flour paste; Matthew Hatton: Enzymes in a viscous medium; Margaret Hey: Paper Bleaching: its simple chemistry and working procedures; Melvyn Jones: Guarding and Filing - the assemblage and binding of miscellaneous documents; lan Moor: The Ambrotype - Research into its restoration and conservation, - Part 2; Siegfried Rempel: A conservation method for nitrate based photographic materials; Judith Segal & David Cooper: The use of enzymes to release adhesives; Society of Archivists Conservation Conferences 1977 and 1978 Book Reviews. Minor mark to front wrapper, otherise Very Good. Errata slip laid in.

Institute of Paper Conservation, London, original journal issue, 1977. Printed wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm,. 56 pp, ills. Volume 2 1977 includes- A. D. Baynes-Cope: The effect of residues of manganese Compounds in paper on the bleaching of prints etc.; Moira Buick: One method of sewing single sheets for binding; Eric Harding: Further experience in the use of N-Methyl-2-Pyrroltdone as a solvent for old flour paste; Matthew Hatton: Enzymes in a viscous medium; Margaret Hey: Paper Bleaching: its simple chemistry and working procedures; Melvyn Jones: Guarding and Filing - the assemblage and binding of miscellaneous documents; lan Moor: The Ambrotype - Research into its restoration and conservation, - Part 2; Siegfried Rempel: A conservation method for nitrate based photographic materials; Judith Segal & David Cooper: The use of enzymes to release adhesives; Society of Archivists Conservation Conferences 1977 and 1978 Book Reviews. Very Good.

Twelve by Eight Press, London, 1963 amended reprint of 1959 first edition. Printed wrappers, gilt cover ornament, small 4to, 22 cm,. 95, [1] pp, ills by Rigby Graham, 4 tipped-in paper samples on 2 leaves. From the blurb: "A professional hand-binder and lecturer on book production at Leicester College of Art, John Mason found that no mill could supply the small quantities of special paper he needed in his work. Undaunted, he started with improvised equipment in his kitchen and garden workshop and set up his own mill in a small room at Leicester College of Art." Contents include: Foreword by Dard Hunter; Preface; I. A Synopsis; II. Preparation for Beating; III. Beating to Pulp; IV. The Mould; V. The Vat;VI. Pressing Equipment; VII Forming the Sheets and Couching; VIII. Separating, Wet Pressing and Drying; IX. Sizing; X. Decorative and Straining Devices; XI. A Note on My Nylon Paper; Glossary. Very Good.

Technical Section of the British Paper and Board Makers' Association (Incorporated), Kenley, Surrey, 1950 reprint of 1949 first edition. Cloth, small 8vo,. 208 pp, plates, ills. Contents: Preface; I. Introduction and Historical; II. The Nature and Uses of Paper; III. The Fibrous Materials of Paper Making; IV. Pulping Methods - Fibres Other than Wood; V. Pulping Methods - Wood; VI. Methods of Bleaching and Cleaning Pulps; VII. The Beater House - Beating; VIII. The Beater House - Auxiliary Operations; IX. The Paper - Making Operation - I. Hand - Made; Paper. The Paper Machine, Wet End; X. The Paper - Making Operation - II. The Paper; Machine, Dry End. The Manufacture of Boards; XI. Finishing and "After - Treatment"; XII. The Paper - Mill Laboratory .; Reading List; Paper - Making Terms Glossary; Index. An ex-library copy with a docket, stamps and a partly removed label on the front endpapers, stamps on the rear endpapers, notes on verso of the title-page, contents otherwise Good.

J. M. Dent and Son, Ltd., London and Toronto, first edition, 1934. Marbled boards, gilt spine-title, 16 mo,. 56 pp. From the blurb: "In the lecture here printed Mr. Clapperton gives a clear account, sufficiently full for the non - technician, of the history of papermaking and of the methods and materials used to - day. The following is a short synopsis of subjects dealt with: Predecessors of Paper: stone, wood, metal, papyrus - The Invention of Paper in China - The spread of the Art Westwards by the Arabs - Paper in Europe, Holland - Impetus given to papermaking by the invention of Printing - Invention of the wove mould - Rag Papers - Scarcity of Rags - Use of other materials - The Fourdrinier paper - making machine for producing paper in rolls - Wood Pulp - Esparto Grass - Paper for Books - Expensive and limited editions - Permanent records - Semi - permanent papers - Ephemeral papers - The craze for bulk and light weight - The Publisher, price versus quality - The Printer and the choice of… Read More

Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh, first edition, 1987. Patterned wrappers, fold-out plate with 43 illustrations pasted onto rear inside cover, 30 cm. [4], 20 pp. [1] colour fold-out plate. A catalogue produced for the Exhibition held 9th March - 1st May 1987. From the introduction: " A selection from the Schmoller Collection was originally shown in February 1984 at the Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, London. From 23rd June to 9th July, 1985 Lancaster University held an exhibition and we invited Tanya to prepare a larger Exhibition for Edinburgh University Library, the first of its kind ever to be shown in Scotland. The article by Hans Schmoller was published in Matrix 3 in 1983 and has been up-dated by Tanya Schmoller while the pull-out illustrations came from the same source. Very Good.

1958 reprint from the Library Association Record, 1900-1902. Later tape-backed covers with plastic front cover and cardboard rear cover, printed wrappers bound in, 8vo,. 32 pp. From the introduction: "These papers are a contribution to the history of the paper-making industry in this country in its early days. It is largely a history of wasted effort, of disappointed projectors; we shall see that, as is the case with some other industries, paper-making has been started time after time, only to die out again. It is not proposed to consider the origin of paper, nor yet to enter into the question of the date of its first appearance in Europe. It will, however, be well to say a few words as to when paper began to be used in England, and to mention some early spécimens in this country." John Bidwell: "It serves as a good introduction and includes a section on patented inventions. An ex-library copy with stamps and labels, a few inkspots on one page, otherwise Good.

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. Fine in Very Good dustwrapper.

Library of Congress, Washington, first edition, 1968. Plain wrappers with embossed cover-title on front wrapper and embossed device oon rear wrapper, oblong small 4to, 22 x 25 cm,. 96 pp, ills. An account derived from the exhibition presented in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and opened on April 21, 1968". Rear wrapper slightly marked, otherwise Very Good.

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.

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 Near Fine dustwrapper.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1967. Cloth, 8vo,. xxi, 400 pp, plates. A closely argued yet compellingly readable analysis of the evidence for the place and date of this Missale, which had been claimed as Gutenberg's first production and so the first book printed from movable type, before being redated to about 1473. Paul Needham has written: "Stevenson lived to see [The Problem of the Missale speciale] acclaimed as a masterpiece. It is, indeed, one of the classics of bibliographical literature. To my mind... The Problem of the Missale speciale stands alongside John Carter and Graham Pollard's Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets (1934) as a work that invites repeated reading not simply for the importance of its results, its decisive contributions to bibliographical method, its exemplification of the bibliographical mind at work, but also for the sheer pleasure and vitality of its prose." Contents: I The Riddle of the Book; II Recent… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1967. Cloth, 8vo,. xxi, 400 pp, plates. A closely argued yet compellingly readable analysis of the evidence for the place and date of this Missale, which had been claimed as Gutenberg's first production and so the first book printed from movable type, before being redated to about 1473. Paul Needham has written: "Stevenson lived to see [The Problem of the Missale speciale] acclaimed as a masterpiece. It is, indeed, one of the classics of bibliographical literature. To my mind... The Problem of the Missale speciale stands alongside John Carter and Graham Pollard's Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets (1934) as a work that invites repeated reading not simply for the importance of its results, its decisive contributions to bibliographical method, its exemplification of the bibliographical mind at work, but also for the sheer pleasure and vitality of its prose." Contents: I The Riddle of the Book; II Recent… Read More