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India paper
1. A soft absorbent paper of creamy-yellow or pale buff colour, imported from China where it is made, and used for the ‘proofs’ or first and finest impressions of engravings; for the proofs of copperplate or steel engravings, it is mounted upon ordinary stout paper. The name is sometimes given loosely to other papers of Oriental manufacture, and to European or American imitations. Hence India paper proofs (also India proofs).
The kind of paper referred to in quot. 1768 is uncertain: cf. an earlier letter to Rev. W. Mason of 7th June 1760.
[1750Walpole Lett. (1846) ii. 351 Mrs. Frere..screamed about Indian paper.] 1768Gray Let. to Rev. Norton Nicholls 3 Feb., Are your India-paper, your Axminster carpets, your sofas and pechés mortels in great forwardness? 1786Catal. Print Sale by Greenwood (‘Gulston’ Sale) 95, No. 16. Eight illustrious heads, by Houbraken, on India paper, prior to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Ibid. 148, No. 103. ‘The Battle of La Hogue’, a most beautiful proof on India paper, by Woollett, after West. Ibid. 152, No. 83. A remarkable fine impression of the Small Copenal, on India paper. 1817Sotheby's Catal. Sale Prints Feb., No. 640 India paper, proofs. Ibid. No. 750 Proof Etchings on India paper. 1842Francis Dict. Arts, etc. s.v. Paper, India paper..comes from China, and is used as a superior article for the same purpose as plate paper. 1864Lowndes' Bibl. Man. 401/2 Cervantes. Don Quixote..1818 With plates on India paper. Ibid. 2829/1 The engravings were originally published separately, India proofs, at {pstlg}10 10s.
2. (Oxford India paper.) A very thin tough opaque printing-paper made by the Oxford University Press in imitation of paper from the East, used chiefly for Bibles and Prayer-books.
(See The Periodical 17 Dec. 1896.)
1875Spectator 28 Aug., India paper of extreme toughness. 1875Athenæum 4 Sept., Tough India paper of exceeding thinness and opacity. 1875Guardian 15 Sept. 1184 We have received from Mr. Henry Frowde, of the Oxford University Press Warehouse, a copy of the Smallest Bible ever produced..printed on tough India paper, of extreme thinness, and wonderfully clear for the size. 1896Periodical 17 Dec., The incidents which led up to the manufacture of the Oxford India Paper. |