Cover Illustration: Tracing of a ship watermark on a seventeenth-century reamwrapper. Fine paper made by Jean Roulet (1638–61) at the Moulin du Got papermill, Limoges, France. This image is reproduced with the kind permission of the Gemeentearchief Zaanstad, Netherlands.
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Names: Bellingradt, Daniel, editor. | Reynolds, Anna (Lecturer), editor.
Title: The paper trade in early modern Europe : practices, materials, networks / edited by Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: The handpress world ; volume 70 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021000332 (print) | LCCN 2021000333 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004423992 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004424005 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Paper industry—Europe—History. | Paper—Europe—History.
Classification: LCC HD9835.A2 P37 2021 (print) | LCC HD9835.A2 (ebook) | DDC 381/.4567609409031—dc23
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