Papermaking in Britain, 1488-1988

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Britain's first papermaker, John Tate, began work five hundred years ago. Dr. Hills, a distinguished industrial historian and President of the International Paper Historians Association, tells the story of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing to Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the the advances that have made possible today's high- speed paper machines. With chapters on watermarking, the Whatmans, Esparto, etc.