Tromonin’s Watermark Album

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Hilversum, Holland, The Paper Publications Society, 1965, Gilt-stamped dark green cloth

LIMITED FIRST EDITION of 500 copies, this is number 65, Fine

Hilversum, Holland: The Paper Publications Society, 1965. Series: Monumenta Chartæ Papyraceæ Historiam Illustrantia, Or Collection of Works and Documents Illustrating The History of Paper, Vol. XI.

LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, this is number 65. Folio. 12 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches. xv, 62; facsimile with facsimile wraps: 22 pp. Errata slip, tables, the facsimile includes 131 plates (many folding) with 1824 drawings of watermarks; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped dark green cloth, silk ribbon page marker; binding square and tight. Two pieces of The Paper Publications Society ephemera laid-in. LH823-051. Fine. 

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LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, this is number 65. Tromonin was an antiquary and lithographer. His watermark album was the first substantial watermark album ever published and included watermarks from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, illustrating more than eighteen hundred watermarks; only about 100 were Russian, the rest being of Polish or Western European origin. It is a landmark in watermark studies with considerable practical value. However, it was issued in only 150 copies and exists only in a few libraries worldwide. This facsimile offers an opportunity for a broader audience to study Tromonin's work.

Well-represented in OCLC.