Morris, Henry. Prospectus for PAPER MAKER, A SURVEY OF LESSER-KNOWN HAND PAPER MILLS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA AND AN ACCOUNT OF A UNIQUE PUBLICATION, WITH A SELECTIVE INDEX.|THE. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, 1974.

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Description: small 4to. single broadside, folded twice. (4) pages. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. Limited to only 175 numbered copies and printed by hand on handmade paper manufactured by Morris. Bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt. (Taylor A15). The first part of this book consists of a survey made by Morris of the lesser known hand papermakers then in existence. He has written short histories of 11 of these including the Twinrocker of America and the Papeterie Saint-Gilles of Canada and the rest from Europe. With 19 pages of illustrations and samples from each of the mills inserted including a papyrus sample from Hassan Ragab at the Papyrus Institute in Cairo. The second part of the book consists of an index to The Paper Maker, that excellent periodical issued by Hercules.

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

[Henry Morris]. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE PAPER MAKER. A SURVEY OF LESSER-KNOWN HAND PAPER MILLS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA, 1974.

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Description: Signed. Quarto; in quarter natural goat-skin lettered vertically in gilt on the spine; and in red paste-paper over boards lettered in paste vertically on the upper cover LONG LIVE THE PAPER MAKERS and on the lover cover VIVA I FRABRICANTI DI CARTA; with two blank leaves and two inserted leaves of pink paper in the front and back of the book, with dedication to Lessing Rosenwald on the verso of the first of these; with prospectus laid in.~~From the colophon: "One hundred and seventy-five copies of this book have been printed with Centaur and Goudy No. 38 types at the Bird & Bull Press in North Hills, Penna. The text paper, endpaper and paste-paper was made at the press. The printing was finished on January 13, 1974, and the book was bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt at Harleysville, Penna. This is copy No 50." Signed by Henry Morris.~~Mr. Morris said of this book: "For many reasons this was one of the most enjoyable books I have produced, possibly because I had to involve myself with so many people in order to bring the work to a successful conclusion."~~ (Taylor & Morris A15). Very Good binding.

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[Bird & Bull Press]: Morris, Henry. THE PAPER MAKER A SURVEY OF LESSER-KNOWN HAND PAPER MILLS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA, 1974.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: Quarto. Quarter gilt-lettered morocco and paste-paper over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Plates, tipped-in samples, etc. Lower fore-tips bumped, scattered spots of surface erosion to the pigment utilized in the pastepaper, internally fine, with the prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies, printed in Centaur and Goudy types on papers handmade at the press, and bound by the Eberhardts. An important and early production by Morris, treating papermills in Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Italy and Poland, as well as a number in the United States. The second section prints a History and Selective Index to THE PAPER MAKER, compiled and edited by Morris and James Anderson. TAYLOR & MORRIS A15.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.