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Revealing Watermarks

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Digital imaging and processing are shown to open new methods of paper research. Early Baltic printed books are the examples in Revealing Watermarks, which also describes how to enhance security, by...
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  • 17 August 2021
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Watermarks reflect the very stuff of the origin, date, distribution, composition, history, and culture of paper-based items. Digital imaging of watermarks releases the research potential as widely as the internet itself. One example is the digital “fingerprinting” of paper in order to enhance the security of items, such as valuable and vulnerable maps. Revealing Watermarks offers detailed instructions of this process, through the author's own PaperPrint method, and by means of the case study of a sixteenth-century watermark—a crown from the arms of Danzig—it illustrates how cultural influences spread and have endured across the centuries, in this case from Sweden to Russia.
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Price: $99.00
Pages: 90
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date: 17 August 2021
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781644696248
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: European history, Imaging systems and technology, Antiques, vintage and collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera and printed matter
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Ian Christie-Miller is a former RAF pilot and teacher. During his London PhD he devised the Early Book Imaging System for watermark research and security enhancement. Publications include Traicté de la Cabale, (2007), 72 In His Name (Academic Studies Press, 2019), and articles on the Electronic British Library Journal.

Table of Contents 

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I.

PaperPrint—Security
Method
The Lindley Library and Other Examples of PaperPrint in Use

II.

Paper, Pages, and Finding Watermarks
How to Reveal Watermarks
Imaging Procedure
Image Processing and Archiving

III.

Case Study—Lithuania to Russia and Sweden—Cultural—the Danzig Connection

IV.

Case Study—Estonia—Number of Pages

V.

Composition and Dating

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