MARBLED PAPER, Its History, Techniques, and Patterns with Special Reference to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World by Wolfe, Richard J - 1900

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. BRAND NEW in a bright and shiny BRAND NEW dust jacket. Perfect condition. Still SEALED in the PUBLISHER'S cardboard SHIPPING CARTON. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. NOT price clipped. Sharp corners. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1990. First Edition. With 430 illustrations, 350 in beautiful full color. Bernard Middleton's review in THE LIBRARY states, "twenty-five years' work has resulted in a scholarly and very readable volume which will be the standard work for many years... exhaustive... includes much information not available or easily found elsewhere... essential reading." From the dust jacket: "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... In MARBLED PAPER, Richard J. Wolfe, a rare book librarian and… Read More