Fourteen Rare Books on Paper and Papermaking
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FOURTEEN RARE BOOKS ON PAPER AND PAPERMAKING Charles W ood Bookseller P.O. Box 382369 / Cambridge / MA 02238 [[email protected]] 617-868-1711 August 2019 PAPERS FOR EVERY PROFESSIONAL NEED 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 tech- nical 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 import- ance is by R. Wolfe, Marbled paper, (1990), pp. 124-130. The mounted marbled specimens in this work are among the most bril- liant 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. CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS WITH TEN SPECIMEN HELIOGRAVURES 5. LIETZE, ERNST. Modern heliographic processes: a manual of instruction in the art of reproducing drawings, engravings, manu- scripts, 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 condi- tion. 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 vari- ety 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 moun- ted 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 cyan- otype). 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 sci- entific 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 introduc- tion by Mr.