Henry Morris NICOLAS LOUIS ROBERT AND HIS ENDLESS WIRE PAPERMAKING MACHINE 2000 Limited Edition Bird & Bull Press Printing History Portfolio Clamshell Case Volume Facsimile Reproductions
Title: Nicolas Louis Robert and His Endless Wire Papermaking Machine
Author: Henry Morris - Founder of Bird & Bull Press
Publisher: Bird & Bull Press
City: Newtown, Pennsylvania
Year: 2000
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 41, (3) pages and additional plates
Width: 12.5" Height: 17.5"
Book Details: This handsome limited edition set includes facsimile reproductions of original drawings in a gray cloth-covered portfolio with a paper label and a small quarto blue cloth-covered book protected in a red cloth-covered clamshell. A pamphlet on this title and a folded facsimile of a sheet of assignats are also laid in.

This work was printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies (Berger A63), this being copy number 6.

The actual inventor of the paper machine was a thirty-three year old former artilleryman named Nicolas Louis Robert (1761-1828). The existence of five of his own ink and watercolor patent drawings was not previously known until Leonard Schlosser bought the set at auction and reproduced them. His reproductions have now been lost except for a very few copies, one of which was given to Schlosser's friend Henry Morris.

These drawings are of historical significance because they describe in detail the very beginning of the paper machine, an invention that had almost as much impact as Gutenberg's printing press. The cheap production of paper and the resultant dissemination of knowledge and information would not have taken place without this invention. The five drawings are reproduced full size on 12" x 16-3/4" card stock and held in a separate board portfolio. The accompanying book provides background material on the inventor and his machine and a chapter on the paper collector and historian Leonard Schlosser.





Condition / Notes: The clamshell case and all contents are in excellent condition.




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