Moulded Objects
Sheets of Italian papers and their watermarks.
Neil Harris
This edition, entitled Moulded Objects: Sheets of Italian Paper and Their Watermarks from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Professor Neil Harris, presents original watermarks produced from the 1400s to the present day in the principal Italian papermaking centres throughout the peninsula, from Trentino to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The fascinating historical journey outlined by Neil Harris, an internationally renowned scholar of paper history, highlights the extent to which knowledge, craftsmanship, and aesthetic sensibility were shared among the makers of the ancient and highly valuable art of papermaking—an art that owes the invention of watermarks to Fabriano.
Limited edition of 45 numbered copies, hand-set in movable type and printed on Magnani paper.