DAS BUCH VOM PAPIER

[The Book on Paper]. Text in German. Pp. 192+[6](last colophon), plus 40 pages of plates (46 images), text figures (reproducing examples of early watermarks), coloured folding map at end, 2 small tipped-in samples (papyrus and parchment), several full page paper samples, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. beige cloth, spine blocked in grey, lettered and decorated in gilt, brown textured papered boards with [parchment?] corner tips, upper board decorated in gilt, the boards faintly scuffed, edges a trifle worn; fore and bottom edges uncut; text block slightly browned, a couple of tiny stains to top edges of leaves, scattered light foxing and occasional light offsetting; Insel Verlag, Leipzig, n.d.[193-]. Second edition. *First published in Berlin in 1929. Armin Renker (1891-1961) was a leading German papermaker and paper historian. From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown above the earlier bookplate of Joannis Szasz LLD.