- History Of The Paper Mills Of South West France From 1300 To 1800 -

- Volume I & II - copy Hors - Commerce with sending and autograph of the author - - volume I has a lot of foxing, unlike its interior, which is close to new, like volume II which is much better rated cover - - equipped with a very rich introduction of 31 pages, the first papers which were all of Arab origin, imported by Italy, then distributed in France, and this from the end of the XI ° second period: 1250 - 1300, the Italians begin to imitate the paper of the Orient - third period: 1300 1450, monopoly of Italy, which now knows how to produce a good quality of paper, then the market opens for France - - in the meantime, around 1280, the watermark is invented, invention which is treated at length in these works, we find 146 plates in volume II with many of these watermarks used between 1300 and 1800