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Title page from John Taylor, The Praise of Hemp-seed (1620), STC 23788, sig. E4r. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Making paper as depicted in Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie, vol. 5 (1767). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sizing paper as depicted in Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie, vol. 5 (1767). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The Book-binder,” opening and detail from Johannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659), C5525, sigs. O1v–O2r. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.