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Writing materials and instruments

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  • An ornate garden obelisk flanked by women with writing materials and blank tablets. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
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    New and complete manual on the making of fancy papers / by M. Fichtenberg ; a translation into English of his Nouveau manual complet fabricant de papiers de fantaisie (PARIS 1852) by Richard J. Wolfe.

    Fichtenberg. | Date: 2010
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    Oriental writing materials : an exhibition from 6 July to 30 November 1977 / The British Library, Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.

    British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books | Date: [1977], ©1977
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    Hale paper : jubilee edition, 1921-1971.

    Hale Paper company. | Date: 1971]
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    The nature and making of papyrus.

    Johnson, Malcolm L. | Date: 1973
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    The art of writing, 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D. : illustrated in a collection of original documents written on vellum, paper, papyrus, silk, linen, bamboo, or inscribed on clay, marble, steatite, jasper, haematite, matrix of emerald and chalcedony, exhibiting forty styles of scripts in the languages of Europe, Asia and Africa.

    | Date: [1930]
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