BALSTON (J.N.). The Elder James Whatman: England's Greatest Paper Maker (1702-1759). A Study of Eighteenth Century Papermaking Technology and its effect on critical phase in the history of English White Paper manufacture.1992

J.N. Balston. 2 Vols., 4to, limited to 350 copies, 362; 330pp., illustrs., sewn ready for binding. A comprehensive and carefully integrated account of the economic, political, geographical and technological factors that affected the paper industry in what was perhaps the most important centre of White paper manufacture in 18th Century Britain.