The Art of Papermaking

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Mountcashel Castle, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Claire, Ireland, The Ashling Press, 1976, Half brown leather

LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION of 405 numbered copies, Fine

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Mountcashel Castle, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Claire, Ireland: The Ashling Press, 1976.

Folio. 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. [vi], 118, [2] pp. Half-title, title-page with mulberry tree silhouette, 14 plates (1 folding) printed on blue mold-made paper, explanation of plates, index and glossary, mulberry silhouette printer's device on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Half brown leather, orange burlap sides, gilt ornamental rules on sides, spine titled in gilt, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. Original prospectus laid-in. LH823-013. Fine.

LIMITED EDITION of 405 numbered copies, this is copy number 237, SIGNED by Ian V. O'Casey, paper-maker and publisher on the colophon. This is one of 365 copies hand-bound in half leather. Text set in twelve-point Baskerville and printed on all rag mould-made paper, decorative handmade papers for the illustrations and endpapers felted by Ian O'Casey of Ashling Handmade Papers, Shannon, Ireland.

The text in this volume is the FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION of Joseph Lalande's 1761 treatise, Art de Faire le Papier (1761), which was the first detailed description of the paper-making craft, issued at a time when paper-making had already achieved an industrial scale. This first treatise on paper-making was originally published in the series Descriptions des Arts et Métiers in Paris, issued by the Académie Royale des Sciences. Illustrations on plates 1, 2, 44, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 make use of gravures created in 1698 and are representations of paper mills that had already been in existence for centuries in France prior to the creation of the illustrations. Introduction by Henrik Voorn, "sometime" President of the International Association of Paper Historians.