The Story of Paper-making

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Frank O. Butler. The Story of Paper-making

The Story of Paper-making

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PREFACE

CHAPTER I. ARTICLES EARLY USED FOR PURPOSES NOW SUPPLIED BY PAPER

CHAPTER II. PAPYRUS AND PARCHMENT

CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF PAPER

CHAPTER IV. EARLY METHODS OF PAPER-MAKING

CHAPTER V. MODERN PAPER-MAKING

CHAPTER VI. WATER-MARKS AND VARIETIES OF PAPER

CHAPTER VII. THE EXTENT OF THE BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES

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Frank O. Butler

An account of paper-making from its earliest known record down to the present time

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♦Assyrian, Babylonian and Chaldean records♦

One of the largest collections of these clay-writings is now in the British Museum and was taken from a great edifice in Assyria, which was probably the residence of Sennacherib. Several series of narratives are comprehended in the collection; one referring to the language, legends, and mythology of the Assyrians; another recording the story of creation, in which “Water-deep” is said to be the creator of all forms of life then in existence, while a third relates to the deluge and the story of the Assyrian Moses. But however interesting these facts may be in themselves, we refer to them only by way of illustration, since we are dealing not so much with the writing itself as with the material on which writing was done.

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