Fourdrinier Papermaking: Stock Supply Through Presses
182pp, illustrated with some line drawings. Blue cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends, some wear to boards. Text block edges starting to tan. Free endpapers starting to fox, pages just starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.
Henry Fourdrinier (1766-1854) was a paper-making entrepreneur. He and his brother, Seely, commissioned the first machine capable of making continous rolls of paper. Revolutionising paper-making, it became known as the Fourdrinier Machine.
