Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns : with Special Reference to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990 - 245 páginas

For 250 years after its introduction to Europe around 1600, the method of decorating paper known as marbling reigned supreme as the chief means of embellishing the fine work of hand-bookbinders. Richard J. Wolfe reconstructs the rise and fall of the craft and offers the most comprehensive account available of its history, techniques, and patterns.

A publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Series

 

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2 The European Cradle Period
13
Marbling in Germany
18
Marbling in France
32
The Further Spread of the Craft
48
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50
13
51
2
113
Technical Aspects of the Craft
153
124
186
48
186
The Initial British Experience
229
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Acerca del autor (1990)

RIchard J. Wolfe was the curator of rare book and manuscripts in The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University and the Joseph Garland Librarian of the Boston Medical Library. He has written on the subjects of early American music publishing, nineteenth-century color printing, and the book arts.

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