Le Papier: Recherches et Notes Pour Servir a L'Histoire du Papier, Principalement a Troyes et aux Environs Depuis le Quatorzieme, Siecle, Par Louis Le Clert...
Paris: A l'Enseigne du Pégase, 1927. Paperback. Two volumes with glassine wraps around thick card printed wraps. untrimmed. Continuous pagination for the two volumes (which measure (17" x 11"). Volume 1: xiv, 266 pp. with 23 plates inserted within. Volume 2: pp. 267-530 (1 pp colophon) with plates 24-78. Most of the 366 illustrations or examples are within these plates, but some are also found within the text. And some of the illustrations are actually watermarks within the given plate that must be illuminated to visualize. Fine, never used, many pages unopened. Item #174169
"ouvrage publié sous le patronage de la Société des bibliophiles francois." An exquisite set, in original glassine in Fine condition. Remnants of box, if available, provided but useless. Text is entirely in French. The edition is limited to 675 copies for sale and another 36 otherwise numbered and distributed. The copyright page says 1926, the base of the title-page says 1927. With numerous wood engravings in the text by Burnot and color plates printed by Jacomet. An enormous and important reference. Further ellucidated on by Jeff Mancevice as follows: "...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. The printing was completed on November 30, 1926." § Schlosser 463."
OCLC: 2131933
Price: $300.00