Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Specimens of paper with different water marks, 1377-1840.
Call Number
Oversize Z237 .S632f
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k930bz393
Publisher
1377-1840
Language
English
Date Created
1840
Extent
1 v. (unpaged) ; 40 cm.
References
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.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
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.'

Discovery Information

Subject
Watermarks—Specimens
Paper—Specimens
Manuscripts—Specimens

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1180

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb133ab0-bd26-41a4-87df-970e3e5260a6/manifest