Re: Paper sizes

[Catherine M Rodriguez <cmr9v@cms.mail.virginia.edu>]

On the following page of the table Gaskell gives a larger size, Double 
Demy, made in England 1781, 98 x 61.  I am not sure whether the name 
"double demy" means it was made in a two-sheet mould or a double-sized 
mould, but there it is in the table.

All Best,

Cathy



--On Friday, October 01, 2004 3:22 AM -0700 Kate Moriarty 
<kmoriart@email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Gaskell (p. 73) lists the largest dimensions for the late 18th century as
> 70 x 49 cm., super royal, England, 1781.  A larger size was made
> mid-eighteenth century in France, 86 x 57.5 cm., imperial.
>
> Kate Moriarty
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> Subject: Paper sizes
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>
> > I regret that I am in a position where I cannot check on this myself for
> > lack of reference books and for lack of sufficient memory to recall the
> > answer.  At any rate, could somebody look in Gaskell or one of them and
> tell
> > me the maximum size of a sheet of paper (in centimeters) in the late
> > eighteenth/early nineteenth century?  I'm interested in the dimensions of
> > the largest sheet of paper that could be made from a single mould.
> >
> > Thanks.
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