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Forty Centuries of Ink

  
[title page]
  
PREFACE.
  
CONTENTS.

 1. 
CHAPTER I. GENESIS OF INK.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. ANTIQUITY OF INK.
 3. 
CHAPTER III. CLASSICAL INK AND ITS EXODUS.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV. CLASSICAL INK AND ITS EXODUS (CONTINUED).
 5. 
CHAPTER V. REVIVAL OF INK.
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CHAPTER VI. INK OF THE WEST.
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CHAPTER VII. EARLY MEDIÆVAL INK.
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CHAPTER VIII. MEDIÆVAL INK.
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CHAPTER IX. END OF MEDIÆVAL INK.
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CHAPTER X. RENAISSANCE INK.
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CHAPTER XI. ANCIENT INK TREATISES.
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CHAPTER XII. STUDY OF INK.
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CHAPTER XIII. STUDY OF INK.
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CHAPTER XIV. CLASSIFICATIONS OF INK.
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CHAPTER XV. OFFICIAL AND LEGAL INK.
 16. 
CHAPTER XVI. ENDURING INK.
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CHAPTER XVII. INK PHENOMENA.
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CHAPTER XVIII. INK CHEMISTRY.
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CHAPTER XIX. FRAUDULENT INK BACK GROUNDS.
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CHAPTER XX. FUGITIVE INK.
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CHAPTER XXI. ANCIENT AND MODERN INK RECEIPTS.
 22. 
CHAPTER XXII. INK INDUSTRY.
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CHAPTER XXIII. CHEMICO-LEGAL INK.
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CHAPTER XXIV. CHEMICO-LEGAL INK (CONTINUED).
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CHAPTER XXV. INK UTENSILS OF ANTIQUITY.
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CHAPTER XXVI. INK UTENSILS (QUILL PEN STEEL PEN).
 27. 
CHAPTER XXVII. SUBSTITUTES FOR INK UTENSILS ("LEAD" AND OTHER PENCILS).
 28. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. ANCIENT INK BACKGROUNDS (THE ORIGIN OF PAPYRUS).
 29. 
CHAPTER XXIX. ANCIENT INK BACKGROUNDS (PARCHMENT AND VELLUM).
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CHAPTER XXX. MODERN INK BACKGROUNDS (TRUE PAPER).
 31. 
CHAPTER XXXI. MODERN INK BACKGROUNDS (WOOD PAPER AND "SAFETY" PAPER).
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CHAPTER XXXII. CURIOSA (INK AND OTHER WRITING MATERIALS).

  
GENERAL INDEX
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FORTY CENTURIES OF INK
OR
A CHRONOLOGICAL NARRATIVE CONCERNING
INK AND ITS BACKGROUNDS

INTRODUCING INCIDENTAL OBSERVATIONS AND
DEDUCTIONS, PARALLELS OF TIME AND COLOR
PHENOMENA, BIBLIOGRAPHY, CHEMISTRY,
POETICAL EFFUSIONS, CITATIONS,
ANECDOTES AND CURIOSA TOGETHER WITH
SOME EVIDENCE RESPECTING THE
EVANESCENT CHARACTER OF
MOST INKS OF TO-DAY AND
AN EPITOME OF CHEMICO-
LEGAL INK.

BY
DAVID N. CARVALHO.


FIRST EDITION
NEW YORK
THE BANKS LAW PUBLISHING CO.
1904.
Copyright, 1904.
By DAVID N. CARVALHO.
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