Author: WOLFE, RICHARD J.
Title: Marbled paper : its history, techniques, and patterns : with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world / Richard J. Wolfe
Description: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (1990) 1990. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 245 pages; Physical desc.: xvi. 245 p. [38] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [193]-228. Summary: 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. Biography: By Richard J. Wolfe. Subject: Marbled papers. Marbling (Bookbinding) Bookbinding. Crafts & Hobbies / Bookbinding. Marbled papers ; Marbling (Bookbinding) ; Bookbinding. Paper crafts. Series: A Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography.ISBN: 0812281888. Weight in Kg appr.:

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