18th century illustration of a workshop where paper is inspected, polished, folded, counted in boundles of 25 foluis, and powerfully compressed in ord

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18th century illustration of a workshop where paper is inspected, polished, folded, counted in boundles of 25 foluis, and powerfully compressed in order to crease and package in reams of 20 bundles or 500 folios. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Location: United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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