Creator
Lalande, Joseph Jérome le Français de.
Title
Art de faire le papier.
Coverage
[Paris]
Publisher
[Desaint et Saillant]
Date
[1761]
Description
This survey of the papermaking industry in eighteenth century Europe is the work of French astronomer Joseph Jérome Le Français de Lalande (1732–1807). Contemporary papermaking machinery and processes are illustrated in fourteen illustrations drawn and engraved by Pierre Patte (1723–1814). Plate XI shows the couchers at work, some lifting the wet sheets of paper from the moulds and others transferring them to the couch board and building a “post” of wet sheets of paper interleaved with felts.
Source
Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1896.