Paper, inks, printing materialsThere are 8 items
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Susannah Whatman : Her housekeeping book : introduced by Thomas Balston; decorated by Lawrence Josset
[Cambridge], [University Press], 1952(24 cm), vii, 39 pp., engraved title-page by H.K. Wolfenden, collotype portrait frontispiece, 14 engravings by Jossett (tissue guardsheets present). Publisher’s dark grey cloth, with maroon title-label inlaid to upper cover. - The “Housekeeping book” is a small quarto notebook of directions for housemaids, written 1776-1789, by the second wife of the great Kentish papermaker James Whatman (1741-1798). Many of the instructions were designed to preserve furniture and other valuable objects and are of interest to modern museum curators. “250 copies… printed for presentation to the friends of the Printer of the University of Cambridge [Brooke Crutchley] at Christmas, 1952” (p.[v]). Brooke Crutchley, A printer’s Christmas books (Cambridge 1974). A trade edition was issued in 1952; reprinted by the National Trust with an introduction by Christina Hardyment, 1987 (ISBN 9780707803319). ¶ Boards slightly rubbed at head and tail of the spine; otherwise in excellent state of preservation. -
An exhibition of books on papermaking : a selection of books from the collection of Leonard B. Schlosser (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 15 April-15 June 1968)
[Philadelphia], [The Free Library of Philadelphia], 1968(25 cm), 23 (1) pp. Publisher’s yellow printed wrappers (saddle-stapled). - The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking, of which seven are from the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and one loaned by the Chiswick Bookshop. This copy is from the issue on unwatermarked wove paper; another issue, printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press, is on a Barcham Green paper watermarked “Bird & Bull”, and has a colophon including statement of limitation (300 copies) on the last page. Cf. W. Thomas Taylor & Henry Morris, Twenty-one years of Bird & Bull: a bibliography, 1958-1979 ([Austin, TX & North Hills, PA] 1980), no. B1. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Paper in prints (catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1 May-4 July 1977)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1977(25.5 cm), 61 (1) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “Catalogue discusses aesthetic roles played by the papers used for fine prints, both separate prints and book illustrations, throughout the history of western printmaking, 15th-20th cs. Primary sections consider surface qualities of different papers, color variations of papers, and factors of size, especially in the size of blank paper or margins beyond the image. Throughout is an attempt to correlate the aesthetic effects of paper with their underlying technical causes or means, leading to newly proposed distinctions and dates” (author’s abstract). 148 works shown. ¶ Few light marks on wrappers. -
Paper in prints (catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1 May-4 July 1977)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1977(25.5 cm), 61 (1) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “Catalogue discusses aesthetic roles played by the papers used for fine prints, both separate prints and book illustrations, throughout the history of western printmaking, 15th-20th cs. Primary sections consider surface qualities of different papers, color variations of papers, and factors of size, especially in the size of blank paper or margins beyond the image. Throughout is an attempt to correlate the aesthetic effects of paper with their underlying technical causes or means, leading to newly proposed distinctions and dates” (author’s abstract). 148 works shown. ¶ Ownership inscription in ink on endpaper, few marks and annotations in margins -
Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries (Monument.Chartae Papyraceae Historiam Illustrantia, 1)
Hilversum, Paper Publications Society, 1981(32 cm), 154 pp., 533 plates. Publisher’s black cloth binding (no dust jacket issued). - Reproductions of 4078 watermarks. Offset reprint of the 1969 reprint (in turn an offset reprint, corrected but not revised, of the original of 1950). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
A dictionary of Michelangelo’s watermarks (published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Michelangelo draughtsman’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 9 October-11 December 1988)
Milan, Olivetti, 1988(30 cm), 49 (1) pp., 104 reproductions of watermarks. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - An examination of the majority of Michelangelo’s drawings (558 of 633 sheets), letters and ricordi, resulting in the identification of 360 watermarks, here organised in 36 categories and 104 types. ¶ Pencil mark on upper wrapper; otherwise a very good, clean copy. -
Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps ca. 1540-1600 (Biblioteca di bibliografia Italiana, 141)
Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 1996(25 cm), 204 pp., 335 illustrations. Publisher’s laminated pictorial boards. - An invaluable tool for dating the paper on which maps, prints, and books were printed. Presents over three-hundred photographic images of watermarks, selected from some 1200 beta-radiographs of watermarks gathered by the author from maps issued mostly in composite atlases printed in Venice and Rome between 1540 and 1600. Graphic Index (pp.195-204). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
Watermarks in Rembrandt’s prints : with a contribution by Jan Piet Filedt Kok
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1998(27 × 31 cm), 251 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial boards. - The first comprehensive catalogue of the watermarks found in the prints of Rembrandt van Rijn, the product of the authors’ examination of 2,765 impressions located in 10 museum collections (936 of the sheets contained watermarks, and most of these were recorded using beta or x-ray radiography). The Catalogue groups the papers by general watermark type (Arms of Amsterdam, Strasbourg Lily, etc.) and then by variants and sub-variants; the beta radiographs are reproduced actual size. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.
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