Product Description
Puzzles in Paper examines the past, present, and future of watermark study, ranging through the disciplines of art history, and conservation, bibliography, musicology, and philately. This book is a collection of scholarly essays that were presented at the Roanoke International Conference on Watermarks. The authors and attendees represent a remarkable assemblage of scientific and humanistic expertise: Chemists, engineers, experts in digital photography, book dealers and collectors, librarians, literary scholars, cartographers, and historians. Over 100 watermark illustrations. Co-published with the British Library.






