Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen (New Experiments and Samples of Paper Made without Rags or at Least a Small Addition of Those Materials) (vol. 1)

1718 - 1790

Jacob Christian Schäffer

German

Full leather binding with blind tooling on boards and board edges. Gold tooling on spine. Blue stuck on endbands. Text block consists of multiple types of paper and media. First half of text block consists of cream laid handmade paper with black printing ink on recto and verso. Second half of text block consists of a variety of paper types (colors, textures, weights) with black printing ink on recto only. Last 4 leaves of text block consists of cream paper with etchings on recto only. Etchings printed with black ink and hand colored with watercolors. First leaf of text block consists of etching in red printing ink. All edges of text block trimmed and colored red.