Practical Remarks on Modern Paper. By John Murray. With an Introductory Essay by Leonard B. Schlosser
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Frontis. & illus. 120 pp. 8vo, orig. morocco-backed patterned boards. North Hills: 1981.
Limited to 300 copies, printed in Baskerville type on Hahnemühle Ingres-Büttenpapier. John Murray's 1829 critique of current papermaking practices and abuses, although little regarded when first published, seems today "a work of remarkable prescience at a time when the books of the past 150 years are crumbling and there is effort both to conserve those and to preserve the literature and science of our own time."from the Introductory Essay.
Fine copy with prospectus.
Limited to 300 copies, printed in Baskerville type on Hahnemühle Ingres-Büttenpapier. John Murray's 1829 critique of current papermaking practices and abuses, although little regarded when first published, seems today "a work of remarkable prescience at a time when the books of the past 150 years are crumbling and there is effort both to conserve those and to preserve the literature and science of our own time."from the Introductory Essay.
Fine copy with prospectus.
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Practical Remarks on Modern Paper. By John Murray. With an Introductory Essay by Leonard B. Schlosser
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BIRD & BULL PRESS
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