Fourteen Rare Books on Paper and Papermaking

FOURTEEN RARE BOOKS ON PAPER AND PAPERMAKING

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1. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY. Kodak Photographic Papers for the Professional. N.p. [Rochester, NY]., N.d. [ca. 1972] $300.00 A quarto sized loose leaf binder with ten stiff-card ‘pages’ and 36 sample prints. There are four tabs: About Kodak Papers; Kodak Poly- contrast Papers; Kodak Enlarging Papers; and Kodak Contact Papers. Introductory text states: “For the professional Kodak now supplies a total of 19 brands of contact and enlarging papers. These are available in a great variety of stock tints, textures, sheens, and printing grades. Many of the brands are new...” Thirty-six of them are shown in this sample book. OCLC lists 25 entries under “Kodak Photographic Papers”; the present title is listed but with no copies located. They give the date of 1972. Not in ORBIS.

Large 4to (10 ¾ x 9 ½"), orig. two-color printed cover, loose-leaf binder. Signed inside front cover "Gordon P. Brown." As noted above 5 stiff-card leaves printed on both sides (i.e. 10 pp) with 36 mounted sample silver gelatin prints, all 7 x 8 ½". Fine condition.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS A MARBLING RARITY

2.HALFER, JOSEF. The progress of the marbling art from technical scientific principles. With a supplement on the decoration of book edges. Translated by Herman Dieck, Philadelphia. Buffalo, New York: Louis H. Kinder, 1893 $2000.00 A very nice copy. Originally published in German in Budapest in 1885, our copy is the first edition in English and the second edition to have marbled paper samples (the 1885 edition contained no samples; the 2nd German edition of 1891 had 35 samples). This copy has the “Preface to the second edition” on page 10. Halfer was a suc- cessful European marbler who had begun revolutionizing the process with the development of prepared colors. Easton gives the work extended notice: “The Halfer system is so important that marbling history is broken at this point, and referred to as pre-Halferian and post-Halferian marbling. The advantages of the Halfer system were two-fold: freed of the laborious preparation of colors, and with stand- ardized colors, marblers could produce more work; and secondly, the use of carragheen size allowed finer detail in marbling.” - Marbling a history, pp. 78-9. The best assessment of Halfer’s work and importance is by R. Wolfe, Marbled paper, (1990), pp. 124-130. The mounted marbled specimens in this work are among the most brilliant and appealing of any similar work I have seen. The reason for the rarity of this work is known; though 1000 copies were printed all but 100 were destroyed in a fire (D. Hunter, “A bibliography of marbled paper,” Paper Trade Journal, April 28, 1921, pp. 52-58). Mejer Bibliographie der Buckbinderei Lit lists two German and the French editions (nos. 1813, 14 and 15) but not this English edition.

8vo, orig. gilt die-stamped leather over cloth (upper cover with wonderful title- labelling); neatly rebacked with most of the original spine laid down on a matching backing (restored by the Green Dragon Bindery). Top edge gilt. 240+(ii) pages of ads for Halfer’s colors. With 5 large mounted single page samples of marbled papers and 5 pages of 6 mounted samples each (or a total of 35 mounted samples). Sensitively restored, a nice copy of an appealing book.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS RARE REPORT ON JAPANESE PAPER-MAKING

3.JAPAN. Report on Japanese paper-making. London: H.M.S.O., 1905 $450.00 This is a Parliamentary Paper published by the Foreign Office (No. 635, Miscellaneous Series, Diplomatic and Consular Reports). Con- tents are arranged as follows: Papermaking Districts; Materials; Growth of Materials; Separation of the bark; Boiling; Cement; Paper making; Designs on paper; Varieties of paper; and Remarks. A “Note” at the bottom of the contents page states: “By the term ‘Japanese’ paper used in this report is meant only paper made from the bark of plants indigenous to Japan, with a slight admixture, in certain cases, of other materials. It does not include ‘foreign paper’ made from wood-pulp, rags &c., factories for the manufacture of which also exist in Japan.” OCLC locates just one copy: Univ of Hawaii at Manoa Library.

8vo, orig. printed wraps on blue paper. 16 pp. Excellent copy.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS SAMPLE BOOK OF DRAWING PAPERS 4. KEUFFEL & ESSER. Samples of drawing papers &c. Hoboken, N. J., N.d. [ca. 18901 $300.00 An immensely valuable sample book of about 120 identified drawing papers of various kinds. With this sample book and a paper gauge the drawings curator can identify papers with a degree of exactness rarely possible. Papers include Whatman’s drawing paper, Universal drawing paper, White bristol board, manila papers, banknote tracing papers, detail drawing papers, mounted drawing papers, tracing or vellum cloth, tracing papers, cloth and papers for blue printing, lined and ruled papers, e. g. profile papers, cross section papers, topographical papers, etc. Rare.

Oblong 12mo, (3 x 7"), orig. stiff printed covers, black cloth spine. Slight wear to the edges of covers but a fine copy.

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5. LIETZE, ERNST. Modern heliographic processes: a manual of instruction in the art of reproducing drawings, engravings, manuscripts, etc. by the action of light; for the use of engineers, architects, draughtsmen, artists and scientists. New York: Van Nostrand, 1888 $650.00 Fine copy of a book which almost always turns up in battered condition. It describes and illustrates reproductive processes based upon salts of silver, iron, chromium, and uranium to reproduce drawings and plans. The ten specimen heliograms are all present in fine condition: 1. silver print on citrochloride of silver paper - negative; 2. ditto, positive; 3. ordinary blue print - negative; 4. ditto - positive; 5. red prussiate of potash print; 6. direct cyanotype (pizzighellitype); 7. ink picture; .8. carbon print; 9. uranium print, developed with nitrate of silver; and 10. uranium print, developed with red prussiate of potash. It is one of very few technical treatises to discuss (and illustrate by exemplars) the variety of reproductive processes for drawings known near the end of the nineteenth century. This precisely the sort of book which completely loses its meaning in a facsimile or electronic copy. Epstean 632. Roosens/Salu 956. Chapter III is devoted to paper. In addition, the index gives about 20 references to paper.

Large 8vo, orig. cloth. viii+143+(iv) pp. with 32 wood-engr. text illus. and 10 mounted specimen heliograms as noted above. Fine copy. Inner rear hinge partially cracked.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS 6.LORING, ROSAMOND B. Marbled papers. An address delivered before the members of the Club of Odd Volumes, November 16, 1932. Boston: COV, 1933$600.00 Fine copy. First edition. A rare and much sought after book, one of 149 copies. It contains large mounted samples of 5 paste papers and 7 samples of marbled papers made by the author. The text also gives an historical sketch of the process. Though Richard Wolfe is not effusive with praise for the papers themselves he does have this to say: “There can be no doubt, however, that Rosamond Loring made a lasting contribution to the field of paper decoration by assembling one of the most outstanding collections of its literature and a superb collection of some of its original examples. Now in the Houghton Library at Harvard, this collection remains the best of its kind in America and one of the most outstanding in the world.” -Marbled papers, p. 134.

8vo, orig. paste paper covers (made by the author), cloth (buckram) spine with gilt title stamping. viii+22+(1) pp. with 12 ff with mounted paper samples. Untrimmed and unopened.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS INCLUDES A SPECIMEN OF CYANOTPE PAPER AND PAPIER- PHOTOTYPE

7. MORIN, H. Quelques Spécimens. Papiers au ferro-prussiate – a dessin - a calquer - quadrilles au MM Henri Morin, Paris, ca. 1920 $250.00 Fine copy of a rare little sample book of 14 leaves of sample papers made by Morin. The first is papier-ferro prussiate (blueprint or cyanotype). The second is papier phototype - this is defined by Luis Nadeau as “the contemporary meaning of ‘phototype’ in the French language refers to the resulting image and object of any photographic process, such as prints, negatives, etc.” - Ençyc. of Printing, Photo- graphic and Photomechanical Processes (1990), II, p. 384. The remaining 12 sample leaves are papers for tracing, graph paper, transparent papers, parchment papers and the like. The firm of Henri Morin manufactured scientific instruments, and surveying and scientific instruments, active 1880-1920. Rare; not in OCLC.

24mo (3 ½ x 5 ½"), orig. printed wrappers. 12 leaves of sample papers and 2 final leaves are adverts for the products of Henri Morin.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS PAPER MAKING RARITY

8.MURRAY, JOHN. Practical remarks on modern paper, with an introductory account of its former substitutes; also observations on writing inks, the restoration of illegible manuscripts, and the preser- vation of important deeds from the destructive effects of damp. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, and London: T. Cadell, 1829 $2700.00 First edition, a rare book. It was not included in the late Leonard Schiosser’s Exhibition of books on papermaking (1968) but only because he did not then have a copy (he told me in 1988 that it took him twenty years to find one). Despite its rarity it is an important book and was reprinted by the Bird and Bull Press in 1981 with an introduction by Mr. Schlosser. (I include here a copy of the reprint). He points out that Murray was concerned with using shorted paper fibres in mechanical papermaking machinery, the increased use of minerals in the pulp, the introduction of chemical bleaching, and the introduction of chemicals into the pulp. This copy is in the original boards untrimmed. Fairly widely held in libraries (OCLC locates 14 copies in this country) but rare in the marketplace. Auction records list only one copy between 1975 and the present; I myself have owned one other copy in the past 51 years.

8vo, orig. dark blue paper boards, untrimmed; neatly rebacked with new printed paper label on spine, a nice copy. xii+120 pp. Contemp. initials ‘T.F.’ and the date Aug. 7, 1829 on the blank front flyleaf.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS WITH 229 TIPPED-IN SAMPLES OF COLORED PAPERS

9. PIETTE, LOUIS. Traité de la Coloration des Pates a Papier précédé d’un apercu sur l’état actual de la fabrication du papier et contenant un assortment d’échantillons de papiers colorés. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal des Fabricants de Papier, 1863 $7950.00 Originally published in 1853 with a slightly different title: Essais sur la Coloration des Pates a Papier. On offer here is a fine untrimmed copy of the second edition in the original printed wrappers and com- plete with all 229 mounted colored paper samples. The introduction states that the author “avait consacré plusieurs années de sa vie” to this work. Indeed, he was a busy man and hard worker all his life. Wikipe- dia gives a good sketch of his life: “He studied law in Metz, Strasbourg and Paris, but while still in his twenties he took over the management of his father’s paper mill in Dilligen, Germany. He and his brother introduced a new method of manufacturing paper using a separate method for sizing and in 1830 they processed waste paper as a sort of precursor to recycling. In 1837 they received a Prussian patent on the production of cardboard covers. They invented various machines for the industrial production of paper, for example a ball rotation cooker and a strainer (1848). They had great success; by 1844 the family business was transformed into a public company. In 1848 the two brothers separated and Louis went to Anon, Belgium. There he helped Baron d’Hoffschmidt in the establishment and management of a paper mill in Pont d’Oye, but in 1857 the business relationship ended. Beginning in 1854 Piette began the publication of the Journal des fabricants de papier. In 1858 he moved to Paris, where he continued his publication and served as a consultant. He edited this until his death in 1864; it was later continued by his widow.”

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS Piette begins the present work with an introductory section where he discusses the materials of paper. This is followed by the major section which deals with coloring substances. They are both traditional natural substances used by dyers for cen- turies and modern chemical products. Indeed, according to P. F. Tschudin, Grundzuge der Papiergeschichte (2002) Piette’s work was the first papermaking manual which deals with the chemistry of paper as a fundamental constituent of papermaking. OCLC locates five copies in American libraries: UPenn, NYPL, Newberry, Harvard & Johns Hopkins.

Large 8vo, orig. printed yellow wrappers, untrimmed copy. xvii+xxxiv+189 pp with 229 large tipped-in samples of colored papers each with the recipe for their making. Preserved in a splendid lift-cover box with gilt and leather spine label.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS WITH 306 MOUNTED SAMPLES OF PAPER SPECIMENS MADE FROM VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES

10. PIETTE, LOUIS. Die Fabrication des Papieres: aus Stroh, Heu, Brennessein, Ginster, blatteren, Quecke, Farrenkraut, Maulbeerbi- atteren, Aloe, Palmen, Spart, Leder, Torf und vielen anderen Substan- zen: im grossen nach zahireichen Versuchen beschreiben und mit 300 Mustern von verschieden Papiersorten bewiesen: nebst einer Bes- chreibung der Papierfabrikation im aligemeinen, mit 24 abbildungen: fur Fabrikanen und alle Freunde der Fortschritte in Cultur und Indus- trie. Zweite sehr vermehrle und verbesserte Auflage. Coin: Dumont Schuberg; Dresden: A. Ruden; Paris: Bureau du Journal des Fabric- ants du Papier, 1861 $5000.00 Originally published in 1838 with only 160 mounted samples. Deals with the manufacture of paper from vegetable substances, e. g. straw, hay, wood, furze, tree leaves, couch grass, ferns, mulberry leaves, aloe, palm, leather, peat and other similar substances. “Louis Piette (1803-62) studied law in Metz, Strasbourg and Paris, but while still in his twenties he took over the management of his father’s paper mill in Dilligen, Germany. He and his brother introduced a new method of manufacturing paper using a separate method for sizing and in 1830 they processed waste paper as a sort of precursor to recycling. In 1837 they received a Prussian patent on the production of cardboard covers. They invented various machines for the industrial production of paper, for example a ball rotation cooker and a strainer (1848). They had great success; by 1844 the family business was transformed into a public company. In 1848 the two brothers separated and Louis went to Anon, Belgium. There he helped Baron d’Hoffschmidt in the establishment and management of a paper mill in Pont d’Oye, but in 1857 the business relationship ended... " - Wikipedia. From here on until the end of his life he served as a consultant and devoted himself to writing on paper manufacturing. The

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS constant overriding theme of much research and writing on papermaking through much of the 19th century was the search for new materials. The present work is rare and contains the sometimes missing supplement of ten additional specimens on pages 249-253 of Vol II. This is a fine copy in a splendid original full morocco binding. OCLC locates but two copies: Harvard and the U. of Melbourne. The obvious reason why all of Piette’s books are so rare is that they were hugely time consuming to produce; each of his books had hundreds of hand-applied mounted specimens.

2 volumes. Bound in full dark green morocco, covers with gilt lines, spines with gilt lines and panels, all edges gilt. I. (viii)+xxxi+vii+229 pp with 159 mounted samples. II. 247 pp with samples numb. 159-298 +(10) for a total of 306 samples. Fine set.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS OVER 250 SAMPLES OF PAPERS MADE FROM EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN

11. PIETTE, LOUIS. Appendice du Manuel du Directeur, du Contre- maitre & des Chefs d,1 ateliers de Papeterie contenant une histoire des succédants et un se des papiers fabriques sans ou avec une melange de chiffons. Paris: Bureau du Journal des fabricants de papier; Dresde: A. Rudel, Agent general de la fabrication du papier en Allemagne, 1861 $4500.00 The work to which this was an appendix was titled Manuel du Direc- teur, du Contre-maitre et des Chefs d’ateliers de Papeterie (1861). It is rare but this Appendice is even rarer. OCLC is not clear on the hold- ings but at the most there are four copies in America (NYPL, Inst of Paper Sci & Tech., BPL and UPenn). And there may in fact be fewer copies of this Appendice as it is listed with the main work without dis- tinction. Also, the present copy does not correspond with the collation given in OCLC which calls for 185 leaves of specimens; this copy has 236 leaves (some leaves with 2 specimens). The leaves themselves are identified paper samples, and many of them have additional samples mounted thereon. The following description is taken from OCLC 19900523: “141 samples are labelled and made, singly or in combina- tion (many with greater or lesser admixtures of rags), from straw (ca. 45: straw of rye, wheat, barley, oats, peas, maize, beans, lentils and /or coiza, wood pulp (ca 36), esparto grass (8), hay or hay and straw (21), and various other materials including clover, Jerusalem artichokes, nettles, genista, tree leaves, tobacco, ferns, jute, leather, peat and paper scraps; one sample of Japanese paper [the present copy has one of papier chine also]. The remaining leaves (including most mounts) - are

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS unlabeled specimens of esparto/wood pulp and straw/wood pulp paper. Some papers were manufactured by the author using his own methods; others manufactured by various methods including those of J. Chauchard, O’Sullivan, Mellier, Ladet, Devaillaine, Causique, H. Voelter, Boun- evaille, Louvie, Meyer, Cassan, Chevrot, Pavy, Dauzon, the Societe anonyme des papeteries du Souche, and Horace Bouchet & Cie. Text printed on pure esparto grass paper manufactured by the Société anonyme des papeteries du Souche. List of holders of French and English patents for methods of using rag substitutes in paper manufacture, pp. 16- 59.” Piette was a prolific author on the subject of paper. In addition to the present work, OCLC cites five other titles: Journal de fabrication de papier (1854-91); Essai sur la coloration des pates a papier (1853, 1863); Die Fabrikation de Papieres aus Stroh (1838); Traite de la fabrication du papier (1831) and Handbuch der Papierfabrikation (1833). All of these works are rare; still, it is amazing to me that Leonard Schlosser never had any of the works by Piette nor did Dard Hunter mention Piette in his Papermaking the History and Technique of an Ancient Craft (1943).

Small thick 4to (8 ½ x 5 ½ x 2 ¾"); orig. mottled paper sides, dark green sheep spine. 63 pp of letterpress (md ½ title & t.p.); and 236 leaves, many with one and some with 2 mounted samples). All identifications are letterpress-printed labels tipped on by hand. The edition must of necessity have been very small.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS EARLY, UNRECORDED BOOK WITH PAPER SAMPLES

12.TOMLINSON, CHARLES (ed). Objects in Art-Manufacture. Issued to Schools by the Board of Trade, Department of Science and Art. No. 1 - PAPER. London: Thomas Harrison, 1854 $1100.00 Tomlinson’s introduction discusses the importance of teaching by means of objects - and this rare little book does just that, with 9 specimens of papers bound in at the rear. The contents of the text are arranged in six sections: I. Natural substitutes for paper; II. History of artificial paper; III. Paper-making by hand; IV. Paper-making by machinery; V. Properties and applications of paper; and VI. Ornament- ation of paper. On the final leaf of text is a printed list of Specimens: “1. Yellow wove (see the paper on which this pamphlet is printed). 1A. Cream laid. 2. Blue wove, with Water-mark. 3. Blotting water- leaf. 4. Pulp-stained (see Wrapper). 5. Surface-stained. 6. Strong paper (capable of supporting 2 cwt.) 7. Straw paper. 8. Brown paper. 9. Sugar paper. 10. Tracing (Papier (vegetal). 11. Marble paper, curl and comb pattern.” OCLC locates one copy (in Germany) with no mention of samples. COPAC locates 3 copies in the UK (again with no mention of samples).

12mo, recent cloth. 67 pp with 9 full-p. samples of colored and other papers bound in at the rear. Orig. printed front wrapper bound in. Ex-lib., old rubberstamp on cover wrapper and on page 1.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS RARE PAPER SAMPLE BOOK

13.WARD, SAMUEL C. Samuel Ward Co., The Boston Linen Co., Stationers, the Boston Bond, Engraving and Fine Printing. Boston, 178 to 184 Devonshire St., N.d. [ca. 1890] $300.00 The Ward Co. were not paper makers; they were retailers. This charm- ing little sample book contains about 75 identified papers. They were almost all for letters or notes. Includes manila, lined writing paper, many samples of Boston Linen paper, ragged edge paper (for social notes), mourning paper (with black line borders), safety paper for checks, paper for paper napkins, and so forth. The final leaf illustrates Ward’s Diamond steel pens. On the inside of the rear cover is a folded printed sheet giving sizes of paper, sizes for visiting cards, and sizes of envelopes. The outside of the rear cover lists some of their special- ties: wedding invitations, coats of arms, crests, stamped headings, visiting cards, steel dies, monograms and fine printing. Not, as far as I can find in OCLC.

24mo (2 ¼ x 4 ½"), orig. stiff card covers, embossed printing on a gold colored stock. About 80 pp., contents as described above.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS SAMPLES OF SELTONA PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS

14. WELLINGTON, S. A. & WARD. Seltona. [Large counter dis- play consisting of a printed card with three mounted silver prints on identified photographic papers]. London or Paris, N.d. [ca. 1920s] $275.00 The three papers are Antique Creme, Mat Lisse Blanc, and Brilliant. Brief text in French speaking of the benefits of this sepia-toned photographic paper (required only a simple fixing in the hypo). Wellington & Ward is not a well-known name in the field of photographic papers and supplies but if you search for them on Google or ABE Books you will find a dozen or so entries (but not for papers, only supplies). OCLC locates two sample books of Seltona papers in one copy each.

Large stiff card (19 ½ x 11 ½"). Printed on one side only. The three mounted prints measure 2 ¾ by 3 ¾" and 2 1/8 x 3 1/8". Appears to have once had a hinge piece on the verso so the piece could stand on a counter or in a window. Corner slightly bumped but in good condition.

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