Paper

Samplebook with Japanese Washi Paper from the paper merchant Yamada Shoukai, No. 4. ca. 1955
Yamada Shoukai was a long-standing Washi store since 1908 and supplied many kinds of Washi from all over Japan, as well as making unique Washi products of exquisite quality, texture and particular features that have been matured by the local's cultural climate. Size 245 x 170 mm. Consisting of a few hundred paper samples, many of them in duplo. A lot of different types of paper, hand made and machine made. Paper for wrapping, drawing, correspondence, bank notes, envelops, food, calligraphy,…

Barrett Timothy: appendix by Winifred Lutz
Japanese Papermaking Paper Making Paper making: Traditions Tools and Techniques
New York & Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Small Quarto 27x19.cm.. 317 pp. Endpapers are Mingei-shi, machine made paper from kozo fiber. Illus. with 91 B&W photos and 75 drawings. Incl. 3 samples of handmade paper tipped-in on p. 3.

Franzke, Jürgen/Stromer, Wolfgang von (Hrsg.)
Zauberstoff Papier. Sechs Jahrhunderte Papier in Deutschland.
Hugendubel, München 4°. 27,5 x 20,5 cm, 239 pp.., mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Abbildungen. Orig.-Leinen mit Umschlag. 'Gezeigt wird Kunst auf und aus Papier. Und auch das Buch selbst - gedruckt auf sechzehn verschiedenen Papiersorten - spielt artistisch mit der Vielfalt des Mediums.'

Heawood, Edward
Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries
The Paper Publication Society . Hilversum, 1950, 154 pp. plus 533 plates533 pp. Cloth. This 1986 edition is an offset reprint of the reprint of 1981. Size: 32×26 cm. Volume 1 from the series Monumenta chartæ papyraceæ historiam illustrantia, or collection of works and documents illustrating the history of paper. Two owners stamps on the first pages.

Heijbroek (J. F.), Greven (T. C.)
Sierpapier. Marmer-, brocaat-en sitspapier in Nederland.
Text in Dutch and English. Pp. 158+[4](blank, colophon, blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, including hand-tipped paper samples, marbled endpapers, register; small oblong 4to; maroon cloth, lettered in silver & black, with decorative paper sample (small part missing) mounted on upper board

Laurentius Frans & Theo Laurentius
Watermarks 1600-1650 Found in the Zeeland Archives
Houten, Hes & De Graaf, 2008 . 284 pp. 24 x 3.7 x 31.7 cm 9061940303

Premchand, Neeta
Off the Deckle Edge: a Papermaking Journey Through India
Bombay, The Ankur Project, 1995. orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 23x22cm, 127,(1) pp., with 7 bound-in full-page specimens and 107 color photographs. First edition.

Samshuijzen, Jelle
Catalogue of a collection of 352 Dutch watermarks 17th - 19th on 391 blank paper sheets
Wageningen, Rockingstone, 2021. Softcover, oblong, 142 pp. 29 x 20,5 cm. With a description of each sheet with 352 back-lit pictures of all the watermarks. ISBN: 9789071249006. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies. ISBN: 9789071249006 ¶ The theme of all the watermarks in this collection is the Netherlands. Nearly all this paper was actually made in the Netherlands. Some were made in other countries, using a Dutch watermark, because it was made for the Dutch market, or the watermark of a…

Samshuijzen, Jelle
Catalogue of a collection of 352 Dutch watermarks 17th - 19th on 391 blank paper sheets with 25 paper samples
Wageningen, Rockingstone, 2021. Softcover, oblong, 142 pp. 29 x 20,5 cm. With a description of each sheet with 352 back-lit pictures of all the watermarks and a DVD with all the files of the pictures of the watermarks. ¶ Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. These include a box with 25 samples of the paper (without watermarks, and some with part watermarks) as described in this catalogue. Size of the paper samples: ca. 15 x 10 cm. and one 21 x 14 cm. ¶ The theme of all the watermarks in…

Samshuijzen, Jelle
Catalogue of a collection of 225 old watermarks 15th - 19th Century
Wageningen, Rockingstone, 2018. Softcover, oblong, 99 pp. 29 x 20,5 cm. With a description of each sheet with back-lit pictures of all the watermarks and a CD-Rom with all the files of the pictures of the watermarks. A large part was made by Dutch papermills, but also by English, French, German and Portugese papermills. covering the period 15th - 19th century. Some names: Honig, Blauw, Pannekoek, Pieter van der Ley, van Gelder, Koning & Desjardin, Proost, Wendelin Richel, Vierevant, Gerrevink,…