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FS: American Watermarks 1690-1835



Dear Society of American Archivists member,

Newly Published Book Information . . .

Containing over 1,050 watermark illustrations, this work published by Oak Knoll Press is the most comprehensive catalog on American watermarks to date!

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               AMERICAN WATERMARKS
                               1690-1835
                      by Thomas Gravell,
             George Miller & Elizabeth Walsh
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In 1979 Thomas Gravel and George Miller published an interim edition of their watermark research which illustrated over 700 watermarks together with provisional thumbnail sketches of the paper mills that produced them.

This new edition, revised with the assistance of Elizabeth Walsh of the Folger Shakespeare Library, incorporates enhanced illustrations of all the original 700 watermark photographs, and adds more than 320 new watermarks found by Mr. Gravell during the past twenty years.

In all, 1,057 watermarks have now been computer enhanced and tripled indexed for better identification. This new corpus of research includes revised and up-dated paper-mill histories, an updated bibliography, a new glossary of paper-making, and new name, geographic, and iconographic indexes.

A new Foreward by Keith Arbour recounts Thomas Gravell?s contributions to paper history.

This expanded and revised edition of American Watermarks 1690-1835 is the most comprehensive catalog of American watermarks to date. To paper historians, imprint and manuscript curators, reference librarians, autograph, ephemera, and financial history collectors, and other scholars, this catalog makes available in easy-to-consult, triple-indexed format, the latest information on early American watermarks.

2002, hardcover, 8½ x 11 inches
397 pages, 1,057 illustrations
ISBN 1-58456-068-1
Order No. 64718 - Price $85.00 or £58.50

You can order this book at
http://www.oakknoll.com/pressrel/watermar.html


Michael Guessford
Publicity & Marketing Director
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Oak Knoll Books (ABAA and ILAB) / Oak Knoll Press / St. Paul's Bibliographies
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Phone (302) 328-7232 / Toll-free 1-800-996-2556 / Fax (302) 328-7274
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