Excerpt from The Art of Paper-Making: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of the Manufacture of Paper; Being a Compilation From the Best Known French, German, and American Writers IT is very remarkable that since the Art of Paper making first struck root in this country, now more than three hundred years since, no work of any kind has appeared on the subject, of any authority or otherwise, of a technical character relating to the manufacturing process strictly and adapted to the wants of the Paper maker. The French Paper-making trade and the German have - although only within the last ten years - produced some writers on the subject, whose writings and treatises have obtained authority to some extent among them and quite recently a German writer in America has written a treatise of considerable practical merit. And the simple matter of making selections from these for the benefit of the English makers, is all we lay claim to in these pages. In the early part of the work the former have been drawn upon, and for the later portion the latter. Hence it is that some parts of this work are, we are aware, either crude, obsolete, or useless, in comparison with our most modern modes of working. But it will at least serve the purpose in laying a foundation for future efforts, of showing what our foreign neighbours, whom we are so frequently threatened are to be our future formidable competitors, have adopted, and do still use, as text-books of their modes of operation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.