Le Papier

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Paris, France, A L'Enseigne du Pégase, 1926, Printed Wrappers

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 711 total copies, Good

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Paris: A L'Enseigne du Pégase, 1926.

Two Volumes. Folio. 16 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. 266; 269-530, [2] pp. Numerous folding plates including samples of papers, original "Avis au Lecture" laid in. Original printed wrappers; covers soiled. Bookplate of the John Henry Nash Library at the University of California. LH823-026. Good.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 711 total copies (including 36 numbered in roman numerals), this is copy number 111. Printed under the patronage of the Société des Bibliophiles François. Jeff Mancevice writes: a "superbly illustrated and printed historical account of paper making in the Troyes Region of France where the first paper mill was established in the city of Troyes (1348) which became, and remains, the center of paper making in France. This massive set was printed in an edition of 675 copies (unnumbered copy). Some copies intended for sale in America have the additional imprint: New York, For sale by E. Weyhe. No expense was spared with even special paper molds being made to reproduce the watermarks in the paper on 15 special folding plates. A magnificently produced and massive work. The colophon provides the information that the work was printed on pure rag paper specially made by Canson & Montgolfier at Vidalon-lès-Annonay. The typographical execution was accomplished by the famous Protat printing house which used the so-called 'Deberny ancien' type characters redesigned for this volume. The head and tail pieces were designed after sixteenth-century vignettes resuscitated by the Lanston Monotype Corporation, the woodcuts were executed by M. Burnot of Lyon. The watermarks reproduced in the very paper-pulp of the folding plates 63 to 78 were executed by the metallurgical establishments of Rai-Tillières in Paris. The plates in collotype, the facsimiles as well as the plates in colors after the watercolors of Czech painter Joseph Sima (1891-1971) and were printed in the workshop of M. Daniel Jacomet." Quoting Schlosser 463.

PROVENANCE: John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a well-know fine printer based primarily in the San Francisco Bay area in the first half of the twentieth century.

REFERENCE: Schlosser, An Exhibition, No. 67. Well represented in OCLC.