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Heading: (Ashling Press)
Author: Lalande, Joseph [Jerome Le Francais] de
Title: The Art of Papermaking
Place: Mountcashel Castle, Ireland
Publisher: Ashling Press
Date: 1976
Item # : 211380
Sale Number   432
Lot Number   20
Sale Name    
The Library of Andrew Griffin: Fine Books in All Fields
Sale Date   07/08/2010
Price realized   $ 204
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Description:
Translated by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson. Illustrated with 14 plates reproducing engravings, on blue paper. 35.5x25.2 cm. (14x10"), half calf and coarse-weave burlap over boards, spine lettered in gilt. No. 230 of 405 copies, printed on all rag mould-made paper. First Edition in English.
Signed by the publisher and paper-maker, Ian V. O'Casey, in colophon. When first published in France in 1761, this was the first true technical manual on papermaking. Includes prospectus.
Condition:
Fine.
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