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Too Good to Waste: Recycling Paper in the Eighteenth Century

by Amélie Junqua , Geoffrey Day
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781851246533
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bodleian Library
  • Publisher Imprint: Bodleian Library
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 480
  • Original Price: GBP 120.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1232 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)

The incredible history of paper recycling in eighteenth-century England.

Paper was a precious commodity in the eighteenth century, with every sheet being made by hand. There was, therefore, a significant demand for recycling substandard paper from mills as well as discarded proofs and sheets from printers and booksellers for secondary use, alongside a robust black market of stealing and receiving stolen paper. A single piece of paper could be termed "waste" and yet sold for cash three times in succession, on each occasion performing a useful function. The end user would keep the newly purchased "waste" in a special drawer from which it would be taken for a myriad household purposes, including cooking, needlework, decoration, and hygiene. Popular satirical prints depicted explicit paper uses, while creators of flamboyant papier m�ch� ceilings concealed the material by gilding it.

With over one hundred illustrations--and drawing on letters from a range of people from farmers to notable authors and members of the aristocracy--together with meticulous archival research, Too Good to Waste traces the extraordinary history of ingenious paper recycling in eighteenth-century England.

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