The books listed below are chosen not only for their content but also for their bibliographies which will lead the reader to further sources of information.
| General Books | |
| Clapperton, RH | Paper: An Historical Account of its Making by Hand from the Earliest Times down to the Present Day. The Shakespear Head Press, 1954 |
| Coleman, D C | The British Paper Industry, 1485-1860, A Study in Industrial Growth. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1958 |
| Hills, Richard L | Papermaking in Britain, 1488-1988, A Short History. Athlone, London, 1988 |
| Hunter, Dard | Papermaking, The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Dover, New York, 1978 |
| Labarre, E J | Dictionary and Encyclopaedia of Paper and Paper-making. 2nd edn, Swets & Zeitlinger, Amsterdam, 1952 |
| Shorter, A H | Paper Making in the British Isles, An Historical and Geographical Study. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971 |
| Shorter, A H | Paper Mills and Paper Makers in England, 1485-1800. Paper Publications Society, Hilversum, 1957 |
| Shorter, A H | Studies on the History of Papermaking in Britain. Variorum, Aldershot, 1993 |
| Thomson, A G | The Paper Industry in Scotland, 1590-1861. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1974 |
| Biographies about Papermakers | |
| Anon | Albert Spicer, 1847-1934, A Man of His Time. /b> by one of his family, Simpkin Marshall, London, 1938 |
| Balston, John W | The Elder James Whatman, Vols 1 & 2. West Farleigh, 1992 |
| Balston, Thomas | James Whatman, Father and Son. Methuen, London, 1954 |
| Balston, Thomas | William Balston – Paper Maker, 1759-1849. Methuen, London, 1954 |
| Crocker, A & Kane, M, eds | The Diaries of James Simmons, Papermaker of Haslemere, 1831-1868. Tabard Private Press, Oxshott, 1990 |
| Hills, Richard, L | John Tate, England’s First Papermaker, Lecture at Stationers’ Hall, 1993 |
| Robertson, James | Fifty Years’ Experience in Paper-making. Reid, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1897 |
| Mill Histories | |
| Anon | Carrongrove, 200 Years of Papermaking. Inveresk, Carrongrove, 2002 |
| Bartlett, J N | Davidsons of Mugiemoss, A History of C Davidson & Sons, Makers of Wrapping Papers, Paper Bags, Paperboard and Plasterboard Liner. Athlone, London, 1997 |
| Crocker, A | Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne, A History of Paper Making in a Surrey Valley, 1704-1875. Tabard Private Press, Oxshott, 1988 |
| Evans, Joan | The Endless Web, John Dickinson & Co Ltd, 1804-1954. J Cape, London, 1955 |
| Fedo, John | Mill on the Don, The Story of the Donside Paper Company. James & James, London, 1993 |
| Harris, Colin | Stowford Paper Mill and the Industrial Heritage of the Erme Valley. Halsgrove, Tiverton, 1999 |
| Ketelby, C D M | Tullis Russell, The History of R Tullis & Company and Tullis Russell & Co Ltd, 1809-1959. Tulliss Russell, Fife, 1967 |
| Muir, Augustus | The British Paper & Board Makers Association, 1872-1972. BP & BMA, London, 1972 |
| Pilkington, Austin | Frogmore and the First Fourdrinier, A History of the British Paper Company, 1890-1990. The British Paper Co, Frogmore, 1990 |
| Portal, Sir Francis | Portals; The Church, the State and the People, Leading to 250 Years of Papermaking. Oxford University Press, 1962 |
| Reader, W J | Bowater, A History. Cambridge University Press, 1962 |
| Watson, | The Last Mill on the Esk, 150 Years of Papermaking, [William Sommerville]. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1987 |
| Weatherill, Lorna | One Hundred Years of Papermaking, An Illustrated History of the Guard Bridge Paper Company, Ltd. 1873-1973, Guard Bridge Paper Co, Fife, 1974 |
| Specialist or Technical Subjects | |
| Balston, John N | The Whatmans and Wove (Velin) Paper, Its Invention and Development in the West. West Farleigh, 1998 |
| Bolam, F (ed) | Paper Making: A General Account of its History, Processes and Applications. Technical Section BP & BIF, London, 1965 |
| Bower, Peter | Turner’s Papers, A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers, 1787-1820. Tate Gallery, London, 1990 |
| Bower, Peter | Turner’s Later Papers, A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers, 1820-1851. Tate Gallery, London, 1999 |
| Clapperton, R H | The Paper-Making Machine, Its Invention, Evolution, and Development. Pergamon, Oxford, 1967 |
| Clapperton, R H & Henderson, W | Modern Paper-making. Waverly Book Co, London, 1929 |
| Cross, C F & Bevan, E J | A Text-Book of Paper-Making. 4th edn, Spon, London, 1916 |
| Dagnall, H | The Taxation of Paper in Great Britain, 1643-1861, A History and Documentation. Edgware, 1998 |
| Grant, J et al, Eds | Paper & Board Manufacture. Technical Division PITA. |
| Grant, J et al, Eds | Paper-Making, A General Account of its History, Process and Applications. Technical Section of the British Paper and Board Makers’ Association, London, revised 1965 |
| Krill, John | English Artists Paper, Renaissance to Regency. 2nd edn, Oak Knoll, Delaware, 2002 |
| Magee, Gary B | Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry, Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| Nuttall, GH | Theory and Operation of the Fourdrinier Paper Machine. SC Phillips & Co Ltd, 1967 |
| Watermarks | |
| Churchill, WA | Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France etc., in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Paper Publications Society, Amsterdam. 1935 |
| Gravell, Thomas L & George Miller | A Catalogue of Foreign Watermarks Found on Paper Used in America 1700-1835. Garland Publishing Inc, NY & London, 1983 |
| Heawood, E | Watermarks Mainly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Paper Publications Society, Hilversum, 1950 |