Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns : with Special Reference to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western WorldUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1990 - 245 pages 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 |
Contents
2 The European Cradle Period | 13 |
Marbling in Germany | 18 |
Marbling in France | 32 |
The Further Spread of the Craft | 48 |
xiii | 50 |
13 | 51 |
2 | 113 |
Technical Aspects of the Craft | 153 |
124 | 186 |
48 | 186 |
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