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Excerpt from The Paper Trade, 1907: A Descriptive and Historical, Survey of the Paper Trade, From the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century The importance of estimating what is being done in the various industries of this country was recognised not long ago in a pronouncement made by the President of the Board of Trade. The idea of the present work was suggested to me long before by the late Director of the London School of Economics, who inspired me to undertake the detailed study of the trade, in a branch of which I was personally engaged. This, I was persuaded, would be a labour of certain value to myself, and my hopes in this respect have been amply realised. But I had the further ambition that a book embodying my researches might be not without value both to those who, like myself, are personally connected with the Paper Trade, and perhaps also to others who have a general interest in the industrial conditions of this country. At least I have been able to amass a body of information which has not before been brought together in a single work; and it remains to be seen whether from this, and from the statistics available in official papers, I have been able to trace those main features of the trade which should go to the making of a description and a history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.