Their prices are considerably lower than the fine edition books and they are not signed or numbered. Some of the paper wrapper books are trade editions of one of our fine books. The others are all first editions. Some have hand marbled paper covers. In 1913 Yagi, a successful Japanese marbler, dictated this book to a professor of a textile college in Kyoto so that his special suminigashi techniques would not be lost.
Yagi covers colors, tools, water, chemicals and techniques for marbling both paper and silk.
There are directions for creating twenty different suminagashi patterns. This book is bound in hand marbled silk broadcloth and is protected with a slipcase. The handmade Twinrocker paper was made especially for this edition. The 16 point type is Centaur with Arrighi used for italics. A small printers flower has been printed in silver to replace colons in lists in the text.