Papermaking in Seventeenth Century England

Papermaking

A55. Peter Thomas. Papermaking in Seventeenth Century England. Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1990. 17.1 x 12.7 cm. (6.75 x 5 in.), 48 pages, 200 copies.

Binding: Full bound in brown goatskin over boards. Title in gold on cover. Housed in a slipcase covered in brown cloth. Paper: Ivory, handmade by Peter. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Hand-set Centaur and Arrighi; titles and italic text in red. Illustration: Five linoleum cuts by Donna. Two paper samples tipped-in. Notes: The text is diary entries by John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes recording their visit to paper mills with commentary written by me. While researching for the text of Shakespeare on Paper-Mills [A50] I came across references to the diary entries that I used in this book. At an International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) meeting, I began to consider the importance of the diary entries, realizing that before Diderot's encyclopedia, these were the only descriptions we had of the process of English papermaking in the seventeenth century. Ray Tomasso's concurrent search to discover what a brown paper looked like inspired the inclusion of his brown- paper sample. The second sample was paper made in England in the 17th century, a page taken from a water- stained and incomplete volume of Joseph Keble's Reports in the Court of Kings Bench at Westminster, from the XII to the XXX Year of the Reign of Our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles II Published in England in 1685.

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