TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

There are two instances of the letter c with a macron. Using theUnicode combining diacritical, this will display on this device as c̄.

The terms table and tablet (a small table) are used in reference toancient writing surfaces.

The term size as used in this book often refers to glutinous materialused in the paper-making process to make the paper surface smoother.

Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.These are indicated in the text by a dashed blue underline.

PAPER & PAPER MAKING,

ANCIENT AND MODERN.

RICHARD HERRING:

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION,

BY THE

REV. GEORGE CROLY, LL. D.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1855.

W. DEWICK, PRINTER, BARBICAN.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR FRANCIS GRAHAM MOON, BARONET,

LORD MAYOR OF LONDON:

THIS WORK,

WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

IS DEDICATED;

BY HIS LORDSHIP’S

OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

[Pg v]

CONTENTS.

	PAGE.
Preface	VII
Introduction	ix

CHAPTER I.
Introduction—Language—Origin of the Art of Writing—Various modes of recording events which preceded it—Materials upon which men first Wrote—Stones, Bricks, Metals, Skins and Intestines of Animals, Tablets, Leaves, Bark, etc., etc.—The Egyptian Papyrus, from which Paper (so called) was first made—Process of Manufacture—Usual dimensions and extreme durability of Papyri—Modern Paper—Its general advantages to mankind—Supposed period of its Invention—The Introduction of Paper-making into Europe—Historical incidents connected therewith—James Whatman—The superiority ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!