Nicolas Louis Robert and His Endless Wire Papermaking Machine; With Facsimiles of the Inventor's Original Drawings of the First Paper Machine. Including a chapter on the papermaking historian Leonard B. Schlosser.
MORRIS, Henry.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. First edition, 1/150 copies. Small 4to. 41 pp. Illustrated, mounted plates, color plate from photographs; accompanied by a suite of five folio color facsimiles of original drawings for the machine in its separate board portfolio, a folded facsimile of "one of the full sheets of assignats, as it came from the printing press," and a publisher's prospectus for the work. Nicolas (1761-1828) invented the machine on which "paper was first made in an endless web, in France, in 1798." The four items housed in a red cloth clam-shell box, with leather spine label. Fine. (2648) (Item ID: 55914)
$275.00