London Wallpapers: Their Manufacture and Use 1690-1840 (Revised Edition)
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London Wallpapers, first published in 1992, has long been out of print. In this new, revised edition there is a substantially enlarged list of wallpaper manufacturers in all their various guises: stationers, paper stainers, paper hanging manufacturers, paper hangers, even "Thomas William Paul, fancy cabinet maker&paper stainer." The list has doubled in size to nearly 800 names covering the longer period 1690 to 1840. Also included for the first time is a particularly fine water-colour of a hand-block printer at work c.1880, a time when the process had achieved its apogee but had not yet been totally replaced by mechanical printing methods. The book describes the method in which rag-based paper was made for wallpaper use, the manner in which wallpaper was printed using hand-carved wooden blocks - with a detailed description of printing flock papers, a fashion for which has recently re-emerged. There is a brief description of the taxes on wallpaper introduced in 1712 and which still...Похожие книги
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