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Paper: An Elegy
Ian Sansom

The history of civilization is bound up with the history of paper. Yet now, according to experts, the paper book has five years left to live before becoming extinct. In Paper: An Elegy, Ian Sansom traces the history of paper-making from 7th century Chinese workmen who made paper from plants, to the 17th century vatmen who dipped, shook and dried paper moulds to make folios and quartos, to todays billiondollar paper industry; from papyrus to e-books. Both a cultural overview and a series of warm, personal meditations on the history and meaning of paper in all its formsas both a means of communication and as an artefact in itself this book is a lively valediction to the paper its printed on.

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