Re: Paper sizes

[Alexandra Mason <alxmason@yahoo.com>]

Believing in actual examples more than tables in reference books, I 
consulted my records of one of the larger books I have worked with, 
Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, 
folio.
The paper in the first edition, 1731-1743, measures 102-73 cm; the second 
edition, 1754, 101.6 x 72 cm; the third edition, 1771, 102.8 x 73 cm.
For full descriptions of the first edition, of the 2 variant copies of the 
1754 edition and the 2 variant copies of the 1771 edition in the Kenneth 
Spencer Research Library, see Mengel, Robert, A Catalogue of the Ellis 
Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries, 
Vol. 2, Lawrence, Kansas, 1983, items no. 476-479.




At 22:31 2004/09/30, you wrote:
> 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.
>
> Everett Wilkie
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