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The book : its history and development (1907)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 85

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er of the seventeenth century 72 THE BOOK: ITS HISTOEY AND DEVELOPMENT. was marked with a watermark of a pot, and hence thename. For specially printed books it is a pretty fancy to have acoat-of-arms set as a watermark, and it is now and thendone, but I fear few readers notice it. Many papers… … been fully realised. At the St. Louis Exhibition in 1904there was a German exhibit which showed the remarkableeffect which could be made by impressing paper pulp bymeans of a photographic plate in relief. The papers which had been so treated were set up in aframe with a light behind them, and they…

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