G-75. Paper as Bibliographical Evidence - Advance Reading List
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Required reading for all participants
Baker, Cathleen A. “Chapter 3. Papermaking by Hand and by Machine,” “Chapter 5. Paper Characteristics,” “Appendix C. Names and Dimensions of Typical Nineteenth-Century Papers,” and “Appendix D. Testing Methods.” In From the Hand to the Machine. Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation. 2nd imp. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Legacy Press, 2014, 34–65, 94–132, 295–299, 300–301. A pdf of these pages will be available to participants before the course. Course participants may also purchase this book at a 25% discount (plus s/h) by emailing the publisher: thelegacypress@gmail.com. Note: TLP is owned by the course leader.
Gaskell, Philip. “Imposition,” “Presswork.” In A New Introduction to Bibliography, 78–141.
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Highly recommended reading for participants who are unfamiliar with the manufacture of hand- and machine-made papers
Baker, Cathleen A. “Chapter 2. Rag Preparation,” “Chapter 4. Processing Innovations and New Fiber Sources.” In From the Hand to the Machine, 20–33, 66–93.
Barrett, Timothy. “Chapter 1. Traditional European Papermaking.” In European Hand Papermaking: Traditions, Tools, and Techniques. 2nd edition. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Legacy Press, 2019, 1–45.
Moore, Timothy. “Appendix C. Mould and Deckle Construction.” In Barrett, European Hand Papermaking, 254–290.
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Highly recommended reading for participants who are unfamiliar with letterpress-printing technology in the hand-press period
Baker, Cathleen A. “Chapter 6. Relief Printing.” In From the Hand to the Machine, 133–171.
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Selected further readings
“A Growing Compendium of Watermarks Found in the Papers of Leonardo da Vinci,” LEOcode: https://leocode.org/
Abbott, Jacob. Harper’s Story Books. The Harper Establishment; or, How the Story Books Are Made. New York: Harper & Bros., 1855.
Albro, Silvia. Fabriano: City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2016.
Anon. “Books on Water-Marks.” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 57, no. 2932 (January 1909): 205–207.
Atkinson, Richard MacIntyre, trans. The Art of Papermaking. Kilmurry, Ireland: Ashling Press, 1976. Translation of LaLande, see below.
Audin, M. “De l’Origine du Papier Vélin.” Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1928): 69–86.
Baker, Cathleen A. “The Wove Paper in John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757): Made on a Cloth-Covered Laid Mould.” In Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper. Vol. 1. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Legacy Press, 2019, 2–44.
Bidwell, John. “The Study of Paper as Evidence, Artefact, and Commodity.” In The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography. Ed. Peter Davison, 69–82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Also “The Study of Paper as Evidence, Artifact, and Commodity.” In Bidwell, John. Paper and Type: Bibliographical Essays. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2019, 3–18.
Bower, Peter. “The Development of Wove Papermaking in England, 1756–1812. In The Mould: Paper- and Mould-Makers in the History of Western Paper. Ed. Giancarlo Castagnari. Fabriano: Istocarta, 2015, 91–100.
Bower, Peter. Turner’s Later Papers: A Study of the Manufacture, Selection, and Use of His Drawing Papers 1820–1851. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.
Bower, Peter. Turner’s Papers: A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of His Drawing Papers, 1787–1820. London: Tate Gallery, 1990.
Briquet, Charles-Moïse. Les filigranes. Ed. Allan H. Stevenson. 4 vols. Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968.
Browning, B.L. Analysis of Paper. 2nd ed. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1977.
Bühler, Curt F. “Chainlines versus Imposition in Incunabula.” Studies in Bibliography 23 (1970): 141–145.
Chapman, Robert W. “An Inventory of Paper, 1674.” Library, s.4, 7 (1926): 402–08.
Chapman, Robert W. Cancels. London: Constable; New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930.
Churchill, William A. Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and Their Interconnection. 1935. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1967.
Clapperton, R.H. “The History of Papermaking in England.” Paper Maker 22, no. 2 (1953): 9–22.
Clapperton, Robert H. The Paper-Making Machine: Its Invention, Evolution and Development. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967.
Cohen, Colin and Geoffrey Wakeman. The Art of Making Paper. Loughborough, U.K.: Plough Press, 1978, 5–31. Reprint of an English translation of Lalande that appeared in the Universal Magazine (March 1762): 113–117; (May 1762): 260–267; (June 1762): 281–282.
Cutbush, James. Early American Papermaking: Two Treatises on Manufacturing Techniques Reprinted from James Cutbush’s American Artist’s Manual (1814) with an Introduction by John Bidwell. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Books, 1990.
Cutbush, James. The American Artist’s Manual, or Dictionary of Practical Knowledge…. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, and R. Fisher, 1814.
Davis, Charles T. The Manufacture of Paper: Being a Description of the Various Processes for the Fabrication, Coloring, and Finishing of Every Kind of Paper…. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1886.
De Vinne, Theodore L. “The Adaptability of Paper.” Bookman 5 (May 1897): 222–224.
Desmarest, N. “Papier. (Art de fabriquer le).” In Encyclopédie méthodique, arts et métiers mécaniques …. Vol. 5. Paris: Chez , 1788, 463–592. See Briquet, Les filigranes, 1:6, for metric conversions of paper dimensions in Desmarest, 536–8, 555–92.
Erfurt, Julius. The Dyeing of Paper Pulp. Trans. Julius Hübner. London: Scott, Greenwood and Co., 1901.
Ferris, Suzanne. “Grain.” Hand Papermaking 4, no. 1 (Summer 1989): 16–25.
Gaskell, Philip. “Notes on Eighteenth-Century British Paper.” Library, s.5, 12 (1957): 34–42.
Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. 1972. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1995
Gravell, Thomas L. and George Miller. A Catalogue of Foreign Watermarks Found on Paper Used in America, 1700–1835. 1983. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1991.
Gravell, Thomas L. and George Miller. American Watermarks, 1690–1835. 1979. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.
Green, Maureen P. The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Legacy Press, 2018.
Hancock, Harold B. and Norman B. Wilkinson. “The Gilpins and Their Endless Papermaking Machine.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 81, no. 4 (October 1957): 391–405.
Harris, Neil and Ilaria Pastrolin. Paper and Watermarks as Bibliographical Evidence. Lyon: Institut d’Historie du Livre, 2018.
Heawood, Edward. Watermarks Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. I. Monumenta Chartæ Papyraceæ Historiam Illustrantia. Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1970.
Hills, Richard. Papermaking in Britain, 1488–1988: A Short History. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 1988.
Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. 1947. New York: Dover, 1978.
Krill, John. English Artists’ Paper: Renaissance to Regency. 2nd ed. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press and Winterthur Museum, 2002.
Labarre, E.J. Dictionary and Encyclopædia of Paper and Paper-making. 1952. 2d ed. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1969.
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Jean Le Français de. Art de faire le papier. Paris: Académie royale des sciences, 1761 (Descriptions des arts et métiers, vol. 4). See Cohen, Colin and Geoffrey Wakeman above.
Loeber, E.G. Paper Mould and Mouldmaker. Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1982.
Loeber, E.G. Supplement to E.J. Labarre, Dictionary and Encyclopædia of Paper and Paper-making. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1967.
McGaw, Judith A. Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801–1885. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
McKerrow, Ronald B. An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1994.
McMullin, B.J. “Watermarks and the Determination of Format in British Paper, 1794–CIRCA 1830.” Studies in Bibliography 56 (2003/04): 295–315.
Munn, Jesse, Terry Boone Wallis, Mary Wootton, and Barbara Meier Husby. “Pre- and Post-Industrial Handmade Paper: You Can See the Difference.” Hand Papermaking 11, no. 2 (Winter 1996): 18–23.
Munsell, Joel. Chronology of the Origin and Progress of Paper and Paper-Making. 5th ed. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1876.
Needham, Paul. “Allan H. Stevenson and the Bibliographical Uses of Paper.” Studies in Bibliography 47 (1994): 23–64.
“The Needham Caculator.” Univ. Penn.: https://www.needhamcalculator.net/. Also click on “About.”
Oldman, C.B. “Watermark Dates in English Paper.” Library, s.4, 25, no. 1–2 (1944): 70–71.
Papermaking: Art and Craft. An Account Derived from the Exhibition Presented in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and Opened on April 21, 1968. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1968.
Piccard Online. Wasserzeichendatenbank “Piccard Online”: https://www.piccard-online.de/start.php. Also see links to other watermark databases in the site’s sidebar.
Pollard, Graham. “Notes on the Size of the Sheet.” Library, s.4, 22 (1942): 106–37.
Povey, K. and I.J.C. Foster. “Turned Chain Lines.” Library, s.5, 5 (1950–51): 184–200.
Proteaux, A. Practical Guide for the Manufacture of Paper and Boards. Trans. Horatio Paine. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1866.
Renker, Armin. “Some Curious Customs of Old-Time Papermaking in Germany.” Paper Maker 30, no. l (1961): 3–10.
Richmond, Leonard and John Littlejohns. The Technique of Water-Colour Painting. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1925.
Ringwalt, J. Luther. American Encyclopædia of Printing. Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt and J.B. Lippincott, 1871.
Shaw, David. “Paper for Octavos: Innovation in Early Sixteenth-Century Book Production: https://www.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/bibliographical-society-david-shaw-paper-octavos-innovation-early-sixteenth-century-book
Shorter, Alfred H. Paper Making in the British Idles: An Historical and Geographical Study. Newton Abbot, U.K.: David & Charles, 1971.
Shorter, Alfred H. Paper Mills and Paper Makers in England, 1495–1800. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1957.
Stevenson, Allan H. “Briquet and the Future of Paper Studies.” In Briquet’s Opuscula. IV. Monumenta Chartæ Papyraceæ Historiam Illustrantia. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1955, xv–l.
Stevenson, Allan H. “New Uses of Watermarks as Bibliographical Evidence.” Studies in Bibliography 1 (1948–49): 151–182.
Stevenson, Allan. “Chain-Indentations in Paper as Evidence.” Studies in Bibliography 6 (1954): 181–195.
Stevenson, Allan. “Watermarks are Twins.” Studies in Bibliography 4 (1951–52): 57–91.
Stevenson, Allan. “Paper as Bibliographical Evidence.” Library, s.5, 17 (1962): 197–212.
Stevenson, Allan. The Problem of the Missale speciale. London: Bibliographical Society, 1967.
Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Physical Bibliography in the Twentieth Century.” In Books, Manuscripts, and the History of Medicine: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Osler Library. Ed. Philip M. Teigen, 57–79. New York: Science History Publications, 1982; also in Tanselle, G. Thomas. Essays in Bibliographical History. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2013, 17–37.
Thomas, Peter and Donna. They Made the Paper at Tuckenhay Mill: Interviews with Retired Hand Papermakers. 2nd ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Legacy Press, 2017.
Tomlinson, Charles, ed. Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical Manufactures…. 2 vols. London & New York: George Virtue, 1854.
Vander Meulen, David L. “The Identification of Paper without Watermarks: The Example of Pope’s Dunciad.” Studies in Bibliography 37 (1984): 58–81.
Watermark identification websites