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The Alfa paper

The Alfa paperThe Alfa paper
The different types of printing paper

alfa


Flexible and lightweight, this beautiful bouffant silky paper is nevertheless the poor relation of luxury and prints is also not even considered a real "big paper". In France alfa is indeed used for copies of authors or as paper last number is often in large quantities. In England, where the big papers are not legions alfa has become since the late nineteenth to the classic edition. Often cheap, best Alfa are very readable and allow a good approach to bibliophiles.

> View our selection of first editions of Alfa.
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