Jacob Christian Schäffers Doctors der Gottesgelehrsamkeit und Weltweisheit ... Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen
Contributors: Loibel; Maag, Johann Nepomuk, approximately 1724-1800; Trautner, G. P. (Gustav Philipp), active 1757-1774
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1765
Place of publication: Regensburg
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Papermaking; Early works to 1800; Papermaking in art
Other titles: D. Jacob Christian Schäffers Muster und Versuche Papier zu machen.
Work titles: Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen
Notes: Dedications to King George III of England in English.

Half title: D. Jacob Christian Schäffers Muster und Versuche Papier zu machen.

Continued by the author's Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen; Wiederholte Versuche auf ordentlichen Papiermühlen aus allerhand Pflanzen und Holzarten Papier zu machen.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² )(⁴ A-G⁴; v. 2: pi² A-D⁴ E² chi1.

Illustrations: 6 prints : engraving, col. (1), hand col. (5); plate mark 17 x 14 cm. By J.N. Maag (4) and G.P. Trauber (2). Comprise one engraving printed in brown and red-orange, after a design by the author (subject: putti making paper) and 5 hand-col. engravings, after Loibel (subject: plant sources of non-rag paper).

Samples comprise full-page specimens of paper made from various materials: wood and/or bark of beech, willow, aspen, hops, grapevines, mulberry, clematis and nettles; various mosses; poplar seed down; hemp chaff; straw; aloe leaves and tree leaves; cattails; cabbage stalks; wasps' nests; sawdust; and mixtures of scraps from the various other experimental papers.

Woodcut head- and tailpieces.

GV 1700-1910, 123, 419

Hunter, D.  Literature of papermaking, p. 34-36

Labarre, E.J.  Paper-making (2nd ed.), p. xvii, no. 185

Renker, A.  Buch vom Papier (3. Ausg.), p. 208

Gatterer, C.W.J.  Schriften vom Papiermachen, p. 204