Morris, Henry

A pair on paper: two essays on paper history and related matters. More adventures in papermaking, etc. Some early Milanese paper wrappers [by] Leonard B. Schlosser.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. Edition ltd. to "approximately" 220 copies, 8vo, pp. 70, [1]; decorated title-pages for book and parts printed in 2 colors, 11 photographic illustrations, 16 reproductions of devices from ream wrappers, and 2 actual specimens of the French Revolutionary era currency known as "assignats" inserted in a pocket in the text; a fine copy in the original quarter brown morocco over decorative tan paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine. Morris recounts his discovery, in 1970, of watermarks of the light and shade type upon sheet of assignats printed between 1789 and 1796, well before the 1812 date Dard Hunter assigned to the earliest watermark of this type. Printer's Choice, 22. Item #5758

Price: $200.00