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[PAPER MAKER’S COMMONPLACE BOOK]

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[PAPER MAKER’S COMMONPLACE BOOK]

<b>112. [PAPER MAKER’S COMMONPLACE BOOK]</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>Eclectic late 19th century copy book, approx 200 pages, 8vo, apparently penned by <b><font size=-1>T. R. Bailey</font></b>, Enon, Clarke County, OH. Embossed Enon Corporation seal on first flyleaf. Half-calf with marbled boards. Evidences extensive dampstaining and wrinkling, though most pages are very readable; front cover starting. Most pages provide instructions for making various kinds of paper, vat sizes, machine specifications, etc. Interspersed on blank pages are small history studies, Civil War facts; poetry and scripture. Page 60 contains General Longstreet’s Field Division, listing companies and battles participated in; another page has IOOF data, particularly for Greene County, OH. Data relating to the Battle of Gettysburg fills three pages. On another page is a recipe for relieving leg cramps. There are 6pp of day-by-day events occurring during the Civil War; 4pp of other military men and statesmen, including Sitting Bull and Daniel Boone; a page entitled “<i>Famous Duels</i>”; plus over a dozen pages of the Bailey family genealogy going back to late 18th century Ireland, dated “<i>Dec 2, 1885</i>.” There are lists of residents and deaths in Greenville, SC, 1881, National Cemeteries in the US and more. A fascinating almanac for the paper trade!

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