The leisure corner, made for reading near the bed. Interesting detail: two bound books, likely novels, and a few fresh quires of paper sheets waiting to be used. Here, newly produced paper sheets, likely in the trade units of the time, were waiting for action. #paperhistory 7/9

A closer look at the paper sheets: Around 1800 most paper amounts in Europe were still calculated in trade units around quantity, i.e. describing the number of sheets. So these are packages of 24/25 sheets - called in Dutch 24 a "boek", in German ein "Buch", in English “a quire”. 8/9