Creator
Jean-Jacques Gautier
Title
Jean Le Noir, ou Le Misanthrope
Coverage
Paris
Date
1791
Description
For centuries, purchasers obtained their new books in this kind of guise: simple wrappers holding the gatherings of the bookblock together until taken to a bookbinder for a sturdy binding. Few such wrappers survive. Blue paper was a frequent 18th-century material for this purpose, often called sugar paper from its use as cones to hold sugar for sale.
Source
Purchased on funds provided by Caroline Schimmel, 2020.
Format
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