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A consideration of all things paperits invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulperswritten by the admired cultural historian and author of the trilogy on all things book-related: A Gentle Madness;Patience and Fortitude (How could any intelligent, literate person not just love this book?Simon Winchester); and A Splendor of Letters (Elegant, wry, and humaneAndr Bernard, New York Observer).
Nicholas Basbanes writes about paper, from its invention in China two thousand years ago to its ideal means, recording the thoughts of Islamic scholars and mathematicians that made the Middle East a center of intellectual energy; from Europe, by way of Spain in the twelfth century and Italy in the thirteenth at the time of the Renaissance, to North America and the rest of the inhabited world.
Basbanes writes about the ways in which paper has been used to record history, make laws, conduct business, and establish identities . . . He makes clear that without paper, modern hygienic practice would be unimaginable; that as currency, people will do almost anything to possess it . . . that the Industrial Revolution would never have happened without paper on which to draw designs and blueprints.
We see papers crucial role in the unfolding of historical events, political scandals, and sensational trials: how the American Revolution which took shape with the Battle of Lexington and Concord, began with the Stamp Act of 1765 . . . the Dreyfus Affair and the forged memorandum known as the bordereau . . . Americas entry into World War I with the Zimmerman Telegram . . . the Alger Hiss spy case and Whittaker Chamberss testimony involving the notorious Pumpkin Papers . . . Daniel Ellsbergs release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the scandal of Watergate.
Basbanes writes of his travels to get to the source of the storyto China, along the Burma Road, and to Japan, whose handmade paper, washi, is as much an expression of the human spirit as it is of craftsmanship . . . to Landover, Maryland, home of the National Security Agency and its one hundred million ultra secret documents, pulped by cryptologists and sent to be recycled as pizza boxes and egg cartons . . . to the Crane Paper mill of Dalton, Massachusetts, a seventh-generation family-owned enterprise, the exclusive supplier of paper for American currency since 1879 . . . and to the Kimberly-Clark mill in New Milford, Connecticut, manufacturer daily of one million boxes of Kleenex tissue and as many rolls of Scott kitchen towels.
Entertaining, illuminating, irresistible, a book that masterfully guides us through papers inseparability from human culture . . .
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ALSO BY NICHOLAS A. BASBANES
About the Author
A World of Letters
Editions and Impressions
Every Book Its Reader
A Splendor of Letters
Among the Gently Mad
Patience & Fortitude
A Gentle Madness
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2013 by Nicholas A. Basbanes
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York,
and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House Companies.
www.aaknopf.com
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
eBook ISBN: 978-0-385-35044-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Basbanes, Nicholas A., [date]
On paper : the everything of its two-thousand-year history / Nicholas A. Basbanes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-307-26642-2
1. PaperHistory. 2. PapermakingHistory. 3. Paper industryHistory. I. Title.
Z247.B34 2013
676.09dc23
2012050267
Cover design by Jason Booher
v3.1
FOR CONNIE
My wife and companion on the paper trail,
With love and gratitude
Statue of the poet Xue Tao. Author photograph.
Wood cut image from The Diamond Sutra. The British Library/Wikimedia Commons.
Duan Win Mao, outside Tengchong. Author photograph.
Wife of Duan Win Mao. Author photograph.
Papermaking, village of Longzhu. Author photograph.
Papermaking, village of Ma. Author photograph.
The Japanese technique of papermaking by Tachibana Minko, Tokyo, 1770. Authors collection.
The Shinto shrine of Kawakama Gozen, Echizen, Japan. Author photograph.
Schematic drawing of design for paper bombs. Smithsonian Institution.
A Japanese mulberry paper balloon reinflated. U.S. Army photograph/Wikimedia Commons.
Papermaker Ichibei Iwano IX. Author photograph.
The Joy of Living with Paper. Ichibei Iwano IX. Author photograph.
Papermaker and tools. From Kashmiri manuscript, c. 18501860. Copyright The British Library Board (Add. Or. 1699), used with permission.
Paper mill of Ulman Stromer. Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. Wikimedia Commons.
Early German paper mill, by Jost Amman. Book of Trades, 1568. From a facsimile copy in the authors collection.
A stamping mill for preparing paper pulp, Novo Teatro di Machine, by Vittorio Zonca, 1607. From a facsimile copy in the authors collection.
Jacob Christian Schffers experiments with papermaking fibers. Robert C. Williams Paper Museum/Institute of Paper Science and Technology. Author photograph.
Embossed duty stamps from the Stamp Act of 1765. Massachusetts Historical Society. Author photograph.
William Bradfords Pennsylvania Journal of October 31, 1765, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Author photograph.
Zenas Crane testing waters of the Housatonic River, Dalton, Massachusetts. Nat White. Courtesy Crane and Company.
A public appeal for rags, 1801. Courtesy Crane and Company.
Douglas A. Crane. Author photograph.
U. S. currency paper, Crane and Company mill, Dalton, Massachusetts. Author photograph.
Seth Wheelers 1891 patent for rolled toilet paper. United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A group of sepoys, Lucknow, India. Illustrated London News, October 1857. Wikimedia Commons.
A soldier with paper cartridge pouch, drawing, Alfred A. Waud, 1864. J. P. Morgan Collection of Civil War Drawings, Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons.
Cover illustration for Sunset magazine, 1904 Art and Architecture Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, used with permission.
British gunners with propaganda leaflets, Holland, January 1945. Imperial War Museums (IWM) London/Wikimedia Commons.
Antilittering sign, Washington, D.C., metro station. Author photograph.
The Law for the Safeguard of German Blood and German Honor that barred marriage between Jews and other Germans. National Archives and Records Administration Gift Collection.
Hitlers signature on the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. National Archives and Records Administration Gift Collection.
Nineteenth-century political petitions, the National Archives and Records Administration preservation laboratory in College Park, Maryland. Author photograph.
Storage alcoves, National Archives II, College Park, Maryland. Author photograph.
Scrap paper, Marcal Paper Mills, Elmwood Park, New Jersey. Author photograph.
Productive use for worthless Weimar reichsmarks, 1923. Deutsches Bundesarchiv, Bild 10200104/Pahl, Georg/CC-BY-SA/Wikimedia Commons.
A 100-trillion-dollar Zimbabwe banknote, 2006. Authors collection.
A Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence. Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention, 17651821, National Archives and Records Administration.
Letter from William Bradford to John Winthrop, 1638, and Winthrops reply. Massachusetts Historical Society. Author photograph.
A volume of John Quincy Adamss diary. Author photograph.
Entryway to the subterranean treasure vault of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. Author photograph.
Harvard College Library Charging Book for 1786, being restored at Weissman Preservation Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Author photograph.
Leonardo da Vincis drawing on paper, Vitruvian Man, c. 1487. Galleria dell Accademia, Venice/Wikimedia Commons.
Piano Sonata in A Major, Opus 101 (Allegro), manuscript sketch in Beethovens handwriting, 1816. The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress.
Thomas Edisons first drawing of a phonograph apparatus, 1880, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey. Author photograph.
Two of Thomas Edisons laboratory notebooks, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey. Author photograph.
Jacques Carreys 1674 drawing of the west pediment of the Parthenon. Original in Bibliothque Nationale de France (BnF), used with permission.
Wenceslaus Hollar illustration, William Dugdales The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London (1658). Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection, University of Toronto/Wikimedia Commons.
Eighteenth-century French architectural drawing instruments, Andrew Alpern Collection at Columbia University. Photograph by Dwight Primiano, reproduced courtesy of Andrew Alpern and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.
A Locks and Canals engineering drawing, December 10, 1846, Lowell, Massachusetts (image LC116114). Courtesy Lowell National Historical Park.
Origami master Robert Lang, Alamo, California. Author photograph.
Papermaker Travis Becker, at Twinrocker Handmade Paper, Brookston, Indiana. Author photograph.
A poster announcing the sale of P. H. Glatfelters Spring Grove paper mill, 1863. Courtesy P. H. Glatfelter Company.
A nineteenth-century engraving depicting industrial papermaking at P. H. Glatfelter, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Courtesy P. H. Glatfelter Company.
Postage stamp paper being produced at Glatfelter mill, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Author photograph.
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