BALSTON (Thomas). William Balston Paper Maker 1759-1849.1954

Methuen & Co. Ltd. First Edition, frontis., with Lord Kenyon's bookplate, 7 plates, 6 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, uncut. Chapter I contains much hitherto unpublished information about the great Whatman, and the later chapters incidentally throw light on the social life of a self-made provincial manufacturer in the first half of the nineteenth century.