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Marbling Methods and Receipts From Four Centuries With Other Instructions Useful to Bookbinders (SIGNED COPY) by McKay,Barry - 1990

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Marbling Methods and Receipts From Four Centuries With Other Instructions Useful to Bookbinders (SIGNED COPY) by McKay,Barry - 1990

Marbling Methods and Receipts From Four Centuries With Other Instructions Useful to Bookbinders (SIGNED COPY)

by McKay,Barry

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Oxford: The Plough Press , 1990. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and with gilt design blocked in black to the upper cover of a bookbinder at work.Beautiful copy and is a Limited Edition of just 500 Copies.Illustrated With some four Black & White Plates and a further Eighteen Original Samples of Marbled Paper numbered at the rear of the book.This copy has been Signed with a presonal dedication by the Author on the Half Title Page.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the text block remains lovely and clean internally.Great copy for the collector,8vo [1990]n 85pp plus Marbled Samples

  • Bookseller Richard Thornton Books GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition Limited Edition 1st Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The Plough Press
  • Place of Publication Oxford
  • Date Published 1990
  • Keywords Bookbinding Marbling Bibliopolist
  • Size 8vo

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Marbling Methods and Receipts from Four Centuries with other instructions useful to bookbinders.<br />Limited edition of 500.

by McKay, Barry (editor)

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  • Hardcover
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780902813137 / 0902813137
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Kidlington, Oxford and New Castle, Delaware: The Plough Press and Oak Knoll Books, 1990. First and limited edition (500 unnumbered copies). Hardback. 85pp plus 6 pages of tipped-in samples at rear. Green cloth boards with inset panel, gilt on black, to upper board. No jacket. Edited and introduced by Barry McKay. The book is divided into a series of historical texts: 'How to Make and Design Turkish Paper' by Daniel Schwenter (1651 - 53); 'The Best Method of Painting Paper in the Turkish Manner' by Johannes Zahn (1685 - 86); 'Choice Secrets for Bookbinders' by Geoffrey Smith (1738); 'The Bookbinder's Pocket Companion' by James Sumner (1858); 'Short Instruction in the Art of Marbling' by Josef Halfer (post 1888); 'Book Edge Marbling' by 'Mancunian' (1909 - 1912). There is then a section of notes on the sources. There are 18 tipped-in samples of marbled papers at the end and also, at the front of the book, a tipped-in advertising page showing… Read More
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