Gatacre, E. V; Winsor, Diana Wookey Hole: The Great Cave and Legend of the Witch, The Cavern of Cave Divers, Papermaking by Hand in the Mill, Lady Bangor's Fairground Collection, Madame Tussaud's Store Room
Wookey Hole Caves Ltd, 1977. Softcover. Staplebound softcover booklet. 32 pp. Colour plates. VG+ (Book ref. 01723) £4.50
Papermaking Fibres
Markinch, Fife: Tullis Russell & Co, 1950. First Edition. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper. 60 pages. 12 colour plates. 12 attractive woodcuts by William Geissler. Describes the sources and structures of some of the fibres used in the manufacture of paper. (Book ref. 12029) £14.00
Galloways of Balerno
London: Newman Neame, 1968. Pictorial Board. Very Good +/No Dustjacket. 4to Published to clbrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of John Galloway & Company Limited, Paper Makers, of Blaerno. A 9 7/8" by 7 1/8" hardback book of 51 pages with map endpapers, photos and drawings. Apart from tiny spots of colour loss on the very corners of the edges and a few fox spots on the front endpaper a very clean and tight book. (Book ref. 015029) £25.00
Clapperton, Robert Henderson & Henderson, William.: MODERN PAPER-MAKING.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1947. 3rd. Edition. Hardback. 380 pages incl. index. Also i / xx advert pages. Fully illustrated + foldout diagrams. Endpapers age browned - also " Olive's Paper Mill, Bury " stamp on free front endpaper. Binding weakened at title page; Original dark blue cloth binding ( extremeties rubbed ) Contents V Good. No Dust Jacket. Heavy ( within 2Kgms ) (Book ref. 4008) £40.00
Lyddon, Denis & Marshall, Peter.: PAPER IN BOLTON ( A Papermaker's Tale)
Altrincham: John Sherratt & Son Ltd. 1975. 1st Edition. Hardback. 208 pages incl. index. Plates. ( In their working lives, the authors were concerned with the running of three Lancashire paper mills - Creams at Little Lever; Springfield at Bolton & Holcombe at Ramsbottom all of which were eventually operated by Trinity Paper Mills Ltd ) V Good in a V Good Dust Jacket, with one small tear on lower front edge. (Book ref. 4002) £10.00
Colin Harris Stowford Paper Mill and the Industrial Heritage of the Erme Valley
Halsgrove, (in association with Arjo Wiggins), Tiverton, first edition, 1999, (ISBN: 1841140481). An official history and, as you might expect, printed on very nice paper indeed. Hardback, square-format, quarto-size, 112 pages, coloured and half-tone illustrations, appendices, index: publisher's dark blue cloth; grey and blue full-colour pictorial dustwrapper. ••••CONDITION•• Very Good, not marked or written in, unclipped dustwrapper. (ISBN: 1841140481) (Book ref. 7141647) £16.00
HILLS (RICHARD L) Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988: A Short History.
London: Athlone Press, 1988. 4to, ix+249pp, numerous monochrome illustrations, glossary and bibliography, red boards, gilt, d-j. A fine copy. (Book ref. RHB7810) £25.00
WYATT (JAMES WILLIAM) The Art of Making Paper by the Machine, as Exemplified in the Manufacture of High-Class Writings and Printings.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 1884. 8vo, 53pp, text figures, 2 fold-out plates, re-bound in maroon cloth, gilt. A fine copy. (Book ref. RHB7514) £23.00
HILLS (RICHARD L) Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988: A Short History.
London: Athlone Press, 1988. 4to, ix+249pp, numerous monochrome illustrations, glossary and bibliography, red boards, gilt, d-j. A near fine copy. (Book ref. RHB6955) £22.00
JOHNSON (W.BRANCH) Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970. 8vo, 206pp, numerous monochrome plates and text diagrams, bibliography, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A very good copy in like d-j. (Book ref. RHB6782) £16.00
Dilworth, D. The Tame Mills Of Staffordshire.
1976, Phillimore. 8vo, 212pp, tables, maps, photos, family trees. DW. Fine copy. Traces the development of water-poweralong the river Tame, in the Black Country. (Book ref. RHB0604) £16.00
West, Clarence J. Bibliography of Paper Making and United States Patents on Paper Making and Related Subjects 1933
New York: The Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B0010XX7O2 Scarce reference work. Covers a little grubby. (Book ref. 028307) £75.00
Price, David (Ed): PAPER GOLD MEDAL: 25 YEARS.
Benn, 1991. 4to, 222pp. VG in VG dw. 25 papers, showing many aspects of the industry and its development 1967-1991. (Book ref. 11548) £12.00
WEATHERILL, LORNA.: One Hundred Years of Papermaking. An Illustrated History of the Guardbridge Paper Company Ltd.1873-1973.
Guard Bridge: Privately Printed 1974. 8vo. Cloth in d.w. 1st Edn. Illus. xi, 122 pp. Bookplate verso f. cover; date on f.e.p. o/w V.g. (Book ref. 36090) £25.00
Hunter, Dard Papermaking The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1943 New York pp hardcover Very Good (Book ref. 4232) £27.00
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
Library of Congress 1968 pp 96 paper Very Good (Book ref. 1587) £8.00
Dolloff, Francis W. Perkinson, Roy L. How to Care for Works of Art on Paper
Museum of Fine Arts 1975 Boston pp 46 bibliogr. paper Very Good (Book ref. 1590) £8.00
HUGH BELSEY, & PETER BOWER, THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH : Themes and Variations , the Art of Landscape.
London: Lowell Libson, 2003. Card Wrappers. Very Good. 9.1/2 " X 11.11.1/2 " A well produced, 48 page, catalogue for an exhibition, arranged by Lowell Libson and shown at W. M. Bradt & Co in New York in 2003. There are two illustrated Introductory texts, - " A Picture ought to be like a Tune "- Gainsborough's Drawings, by Hugh Belsey. and " Thomas Gainsborough's Papers " by Peter bower. A study of the drawing papers used - in relation to the exhibits.The Inroductory texts have 30 illustrations . Followed by a detailed Catalogue of 7 Fine drawings, all illustrated Full Page, with extensive , facing page Notes. - an attractive and informative catalogue. (Book ref. 011267) £9.00
FRASER HUNTER [ Introductory Essay ] INTRODUCING SCOTTISH CULTURE & TH ENVIRONMEMT OF IWATE/ Iwate Art Festival UK98.
Japan: Iwate Art Festival, 1998. Illustrated Card Wrappers. Fine. 9" X 11/12" 4998069608 Paperback A large, well illustrated Catalogue for an exhibition for the Iwate Art Festival. in fact, Eight Exhibitions shown in various venues. Devoted toScottish Culture and Celtic connections. 95 Artists. Sculptors, Paper Makers, Printmakers, Artists include Jake Harvey. Paolozzi. Stuart Duffin, Keith Rand. and artists working in Scotland. unpaginated, [ hundreds of plates , mostly in colur, and extensive notes in Japanese and English. Texts By Martin Harrison, Fraser Huntewr, Andrewq Partizio, Jacki Perry, Keith Hartley, David Moore, and Mitsuro Mikami. A Fine copy of this scarce item. (Book ref. 008187) £15.00
CHURCHILL (W.A.) Watermarks in Paper on Holland, England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and their Interconnection.
Meppel: Krips Reprint Company, 1967. Large 4to, 96pp., followed by 432 pages with reproductions of watermarks, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. Excellent essay on the subject, showing 578 watermarks and ream wrappers in full size, with lists of Dutch and English paper-makers of the period. (Book ref. 28092) £105.00