Paper and type : bibliographical essays

Paper and type : bibliographical essays

Charlottesville The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2019

xiii, 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

676.2 B591 2019 MB

(OCoLC)1044772638

"A collection of essays by the noted bibliographer John Bidwell on book production in England and America during the Industrial Revolution. Several of these essays touch on topics outside the pivotal period, but all tend toward the manufacturing sector and deal with the same tools of the trade--paper and type"--Provided by publisher.|Includes bibliographical references and index.|Contents: The study of paper as evidence, artifact, and commodity (1992) -- The basics of paper history (2004) -- Bibliographies of paper history (2005) -- The British Association of Paper Historians (2002) -- Wove paper in England and France (1999) -- Biographical dictionaries of the book trades (2008) -- French paper in English books (2002) -- The industrialization of the paper trade (2009) -- Designs by Mr. J. Baskerville, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (2002) -- Fine papers at the Oxford University Press (1999) -- Printers' supplies and capitalization (2000) -- The size of the sheet in America: paper-moulds manufactured by N. & D. Sellers of Philadelphia (1977) -- Early American papermaking: two treatises on manufacturing techniques (1990) -- American papermakers and the panic of 1819 (1993) -- Epic ambitions: the publication of Joel Barlow's The Columbiad (1983) -- Sensibility and scandal: the publication of Paul and Virginia (2011).|L2019M51

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