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Specimens of paper with different water marks, 1377-1840.
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Book
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English
Published/Created
1377-1840
Description
1 v. (unpaged) ; 40 cm.
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Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858
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Notes
371 specimens of watermarked paper, together with brief descriptions of each in a mid-nineteenth century ms. hand. The specimens are mainly blank leaves, though some leaves feature writing and letterpress.
Spine title.
Specimen 334 is stamped sheet addressed to Dawson Turner, Yarmouth.
Auction catalogue description: 'Watermarks on Paper. A very curious collection of upwards of three hundred and seventy specimens of paper with various Watermarks, for A.D. 1377 to A. D. 1842, collected with a view to assist in ascertaining the age of undated manuscripts, and of verifying that of dated ones, by Dawson Turner, Esq. and bound in 1 vol. half calf.'
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Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of Dawson Turner, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., etc., etc. formerly of Yarmouth : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... Leicester Square ... on Monday, May 16th, 1859, and seven following days (Sunday excepted). [London, 1859], item 1523.
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