Marbling: a History and a Bibliography
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
#831 of a Limited Edition of 850 copies printed in August 1983. Designed & produced by Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks. Set in photographic Bembo types with handset Bembo display. Printed on Natural 80lb Permalife Text with the illustrations on 80lb Natural Karma. Bound by Kater-Crafts in Rohhalbleinen 401 cloth with a marbled inset by Norma Rubovits.
Chapters include:
- Suminagashi: The Japanese Way with Marbled Paper
- The Near East (Origins of Marbling; Italy; France; England; Germany; Scandinavia; The Low Countries)
- America
- Marbling: Past & Present Uses (Collectors; Marbled Paper Patterns; Mechanical Marbling; Marbled Patterns in Other Media)
- Resources for the Study of Marbled Papers; A Bibliography of Marbled Paper
ISBN: 0870931806
8-5/8 x 11-1/4", off-white linen, inlaid rectangle of marbled paper pasted-on front board, xiii, 190pp, tipped-in color frontis. illustration, 7 full-page color plates and 3 full-page black & white plates in text, 6 examples of colored marbled papers tipped onto 4 leaves, appendices including glossary, marbling methods, Franklin D. Roosevelt Marbled Christmas Books, index.
Clean, bright, tight, crisp, very fine.
Price: $200.00