The James McBey collection of watermarked paper : fifty-seven original examples of paper made in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / together with a catalogue by Colin Cohen and an introduction by Nicolas Barker.
1981
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Details
Title
The James McBey collection of watermarked paper : fifty-seven original examples of paper made in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / together with a catalogue by Colin Cohen and an introduction by Nicolas Barker.
Created/published
Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library, 1981.
Description
1 portfolio (57 [i.e., 59] sheets) ; 61 cm + catalogue ([47] p. :ill. ;30 cm)
Associated name
Cohen, Colin.
Houghton Library.
Houghton Library.
Note
A standard study set of watermarked papers assembled by Harvard University out of samples in the McBey collection, for distribution to libraries and museums. There are "some sixty sets of up to fifty-seven fully catalogued and, so far as possible, identical sheets ... In addition, two extra sets have been prepared and deposited at Harvard and the British Library, London, containing further sheets: these latter, numbered from 101, have not been fully catalogued. A full list of libraries and museums which acquire sets will appear in the Book collector"--p. [3] of catalogue.
Catalogued from title page of catalogue.
Each of the 59 sample sheets is in an acid-free folder. They are numbered 1-55, 56a-c, 57.
"The lowest numbered sets are the most complete ...; some sets are also missing sheets from within the series"--p. [3] of catalogue.
Catalogued from title page of catalogue.
Each of the 59 sample sheets is in an acid-free folder. They are numbered 1-55, 56a-c, 57.
"The lowest numbered sets are the most complete ...; some sets are also missing sheets from within the series"--p. [3] of catalogue.
Bibliography, etc.
Bibliography: p. [5] of catalogue.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Massachusetts.
Item Details
Call number
ART Flat d8
Folger-specific note
"This set contains sheets 1-50." Catalog affixed inside portfolio
Folger accession
246057
Former call number
MS ADD 1015
Call number
Z237 .J35 1981
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: catalog only.