WILLIAM BALSTON. Thomas Balston. — William Balston. Paper Maker 1759-1849.

Methuen & Co Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), printed by Brooke Crutchley at the University Press, Cambridge on mould-made J. Whatman paper manufactured by W. & R. Balston. 8vo. xii, 172pp. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece, thirteen illustrations over seven plates and five further illustrations in the text. Free endpapers and pastedowns very slightly spotted. A virtually fine copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat toned and spotted., Near Fine, Good